Aimee Gabay
Reporter at @MongabayOrg // Words in @Guardian @AJEnglish @NewScientist @Grist @LiveScience.
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1 week ago |
news.mongabay.com | Aimee Gabay
Indigenous and local communities in southern Ecuador are struggling to stop a Canadian gold-and-copper mining project that communities say will largely impact the Quimsacocha páramo ecosystem while violating their rights to self-determination. According to its technical report, the Loma Large mining project approved by the Ecuadorian government will provide jobs for locals and ensure the protection of water sources and the environment.
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1 week ago |
news.mongabay.com | Aimee Gabay
In 2018, Argentina charged the former director of the country’s glacier research institute and three former environment secretaries with abuse of authority that allegedly led to a toxic cyanide spill at a gold mine in the country’s San Juan province. Seven years later, the four officials have not yet been tried and officials have not provided an explanation for the delay.
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2 weeks ago |
news.mongabay.com | Aimee Gabay
The aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in peatlands and other wetland areas in tropical South America, produces oval-shaped fruits that can be consumed raw or processed to make beverages, soap, oils and other products. The discovery of its market potential in the 1990s led to destructive harvesting and genetic degradation as people filed to palm swamps in the Peruvian Amazon to collect the fruits.
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2 weeks ago |
news.mongabay.com | Aimee Gabay
The involvement of Munduruku people in illegal mining inside the Munduruku Indigenous Territory made Brazil’s efforts to stop it more complicated, federal officials said. Munduruku sources told Mongabay that deception, abandonment by the state and a lack of alternative income sources are what push some Munduruku people to mine. The recruitment of Indigenous peoples is an important mechanism used by miners to secure access to lands and gain support against government crackdowns, researchers said.
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2 weeks ago |
brasil.mongabay.com | Aimee Gabay |Rhett Butler
Projeto que prevê a construção de um porto e uma ferrovia no Maranhão afetará quilombos, assentamentos rurais e áreas de proteção ambiental na Amazônia, de acordo com quilombolas da região e uma coalizão de organizações da sociedade civil. Eles afirmam que a empresa responsável não consultou todas as comunidades afetadas que dependem da pesca na área de mangue e questionam a validade da licença ambiental.
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As sea levels rise, a handful of communities are being relocated further inland, to safer areas. But what happens when a community that depends on fishing is relocated and can no longer easily access the sea? New for @MongabayOrg: https://t.co/C3zmXUo0Oq