Antofagasta: the Goliath which is crushing Caimanes
“All the biggest companies at the top of the international rankings in Chile are English,” Lucio Cuenca tells me. “Not just Antofagasta, which was...
El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say...
BOLIVIA: LANDSLIDE PREVENTION AND WARNING FOR LA PAZ
Ofxam, in conjunction with other NGOs and other Bolivian authorities, are working to implement an early warning system to lessen the damaging effects of landslides on the heavily populated steep slopes of the Bolivian capital.
Land conflicts and destruction in the Brazilian Amazon
This is the first of a series of articles contributed by LAB partner Agência Pública from São Paulo, Brazil. It brings together material first...
Terra do Meio 3: O rio Iriri – conservação e seus...
Na terceira de seis postagens, uma discussão sobre os problemas dos colonos (barragens, legislação ambiental, grileiros) e uma visita a uma fazenda “fantasma”.
Tradução: Maria...
Peru: four outstanding indigenous leaders
Profiles of four individuals who have fought mining, logging and land-seizures to protect their communities.
Chevron, Ecuador and the extractor’s curse – 1
1. Lago Agrio – Ecuador’s Chernobyl
On July 10 2018, two courts, over 2,800 miles apart, came to diametrically opposite conclusions about one of the...
Colombia’s struggle for sustainable development
The relationship between the natural environment and the armed conflict in Colombia is deeply interwoven and complex, and the issue of governance is at...
Climate change: young indigenous people speak out
A number of indigenous leaders from the Amazon were at the forefront of climate action events in New York 19-28 September 2019. The protests,...
Belize: Conservation in the forest
In a third and final blog post from Punta Gorda, Belize, Rachel joins an indigenous community led forest patrol and witnesses the damaging impacts...