Mining and Forests

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2011

• Mega-projects and the criminalization of struggles to defend people's rights in India and Honduras
• Philippines: Rally to stop Chinese mining in Palawan!
• Indonesia: Sources of livelihood threatened by REDD+, mining and oil palm projects
• Special Bulletin focused on mining and communities
• Philippines: A call to stop mining in Palawan
• India: POSCO project approved but the struggle continues

2010

• Human Rights Day: A Story of Social Struggles
• Philippines: Deforestation through mining subsidized by CDM project
• Burma: Farmers fight plantation company threatening protected forests and tiger reserve in Hugawng Valley
• The human right to water
• India: POSCO mining project halted by people’s opposition but forest clearance still stands
• Guatemala: minería de hierro amenaza manglares del Pacífico Only available in Spanish
• Posco: Bad for India, bad for Uruguay and bad for the climate
• Brazil: The double role of Norway in conserving and destroying the Amazon
• Madagascar: Forest communities impacted by a Rio Tinto mine
• No shining legacy: Women start organising against gold mining in Thailand

2009

• Mexico: Opposition to Blackfire mining operations ends in murder
• Posco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay
• Cambodia's Prey Long forest is “equivalent to life itself” for local communities
• Gabon: Marc Ona Essangui awarded 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize
• Colombia: Militarized mining tramples ancestral rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó
• India: A human chain to defend Niyamgiri Hill from mining

• Ecuador: New oil exploration activities in Yasuní National Park

2008

• Costa Rica: Grass-roots resistance to open cast mining in Crucitas
• Mexico: Mining causes ecocide in Coahuayana, Michoacan 
• Ghana: Newmont Mining Corp. threatens Ajenjua Bepo Forest and neighbouring communities
• Africa, my Africa!
• The problems faced by Gabon’s forests and the communities that depend on them: a menu of logging, dams, oil, mining, parks, railways, roads, ports
• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Deforestation of protected areas for mining operations in the province of Katanga – The case of the Basse Kando Reserve
• Bangladesh: Phulbari coal mine - "losses beyond compensation"

• Bangladesh: Resistance against coal open-pit mine in Phulbari

• Congo, Democratic Republic: The looting war

• India: Illegal aluminium refinery in Tribal lands in Orissa

2007

• Criminalized for Defending Nature
• Ecuador: Major success against mining in the Intag zone

• Honduras: The reasons for defending the forest

• Congo, Democratic Republic: Tracking the deadly thread of coltan
• Congo, Republic: Thousands of hectares of land for eucalyptus, oil palm and mining
• Ecuador: Uprising in demand of a country free from large-scale mining
• Ecuador: Consolidation of resistance against mining in Intag

• Ecuador: The Awa People and their territory between political interests and economic pressure.

• India: Indigenous movement in Jharkhand challenge plans for industrial development that threatens to destroy Adivasi forests, farmlands and way of life

• Burma: The greening of the military junta by the Wildlife Conservation Society

2006

• Nicaragua: Mining in the Southeast Biosphere Reserve
• Guatemala: Documentaries on mining impacts

2005

• Madagascar: Ilmenite mining in exchange for forests and people
• Burma: Ceasefire, Logging and Mining Concessions in Kachin State
• Ghana: Newmont mining urged to cancel new plans
• Peru: Community resistance forces Yanacocha Mining Company to retreat

2004

• Argentina: For a sustainable Patagonia, against mining
• India: Women’s response to devastating mining
• Costa Rica: Nicoya Gulf and drinking water in the region endangered by gold-mining
• Ghana: The World Bank in the gold scenario
• Africa: “The more you know, the less gold glows”
• Women’s Life Devastated by Mining

2003

• Burma: Behind the glitter of rubies, sapphires and jade
• Philippines: Opposition against mining policy
• Extractive Industries Review calls for limits of World Bank funding of mining activities
• Argentina: One year after the Esquel "NO", a national network against mining is born
• Honduras: Journalist opposing mining murdered
• Venezuela: Government plan endangers the Imataca forest
• Nicaragua: Canadian mining company accused of cyanide spill
• Honduras: International delegation documents serious problems in Olancho
• Bolivia: Protected areas at the disposal of oil companies
• Senegal: Government limits mining as a means to protecting forests
• Indonesia: Mounting opposition to mining in protected areas
• Madagascar: Rio Tinto mining project goes ahead... for the worst
• Special Bulletin
• Congo, Democratic Republic: Cell phones, forest destruction and death
• Argentina: Echoes of the plebiscite against Canadian mining exploitation
• Kenya: Canadian titanium mining challenged by new government
• Costa Rica: Hopeful resolution on moratorium to mining and oil
• Ghana: Government Puts The Last Nail In the Coffin of Ghana's Forest
• Argentina: A great small victory against a Canadian mining company
• Philippines: Growing opposition against the Sumitomo Corporation nickel refinery plant in Palawan

2002

• Argentina: Peoples and forests threatened by Canadian mining company
• Peru: Public consultation says NO to mining in Tambogrande
• Ecuador: When people said NO to mining
• Colombia: Community stops a mining license in forest reserve
• Laos: IFC backs Australian gold mine
• Costa Rica: The people say Yes to Life, No to Mining
• Tanzania: Biodiversity loss linked to IMF-promoted commercial agriculture and mining
• Madagascar: IMF-promoted mining threatens littoral forests
• Papua New Guinea: The power of mining corporations
• Central African Republic: IMF, logging and mining
• Cote d'Ivoire: IMF, cocoa, coffee, logging and mining
• Ghana: IMF, mining and logging
• Madagascar: IMF opens up the country to mining

2001

• India: Mining ancestral lands for corporate profits
• Jamaica: Deforestation linked to mining, agriculture and tourism
• Peru: Forests and people threatened by Canadian mining company
• Costa Rica: Canadian mining company attempts to silence opposition
• Panama: Mining, forests and indigenous peoples' rights
• Guyana: Transnational mining companies' impacts on people and the environment

2000

• Ghana: The impacts of mining
• India: Mining and plantations put National Park at risk
• Burma: Human rights abuses linked to foreign investment in "development"
• Tanzania: Gold mining adds new problems to lake Victoria
• Kenya: Mangroves threatened by Canadian mining company
• Papua New Guinea: From Australia with cyanide

1999

• Philippines: Canadian mining company against indigenous peoples
• Nicaragua: Australian gold mining company in the rainforest
• Venezuela: social and environmental demands to new President
• Madagascar: communities defend rainforests against Rio Tinto
• ABN Amro Bank clients protest against Freeport's activities in Indonesia
• Brazil : concern over new president of FUNAI

1998

• Indigenous peoples fight for territorial rights in Guyana
• Suriname: gold, coke and malaria
• The truth about Rio Tinto
• Multinational mining in The Philippines
• Indonesia: Dayak’s tour seeking support
• Mining activities destroy the environment in Indonesia

1997

• Ecuador: Protective Forests in danger
• Papua New Guinea: mining expansion causes unrest
• Costa Rica: against mining activities
• Indonesia’s forests in flames
• Chile: activists against mining in Ecuador arrested
• Gold fever threatens forests and people in Suriname

WRM Bulletin Nº 71 - June 2003 - complete version

Given the serious impacts of mining on forests and forest peoples, we have dedicated this issue of the WRM bulletin entirely to this activity. The first section is aimed at allowing people --particularly those not involved in the issue-- to have a better understanding about the different aspects of this activity. The second section provides detailed country information on a wide range of mining activities and their impacts, as well as on the struggles to oppose them. Finally, the bulletin provides readers with access to relevant contacts and information for further involvement in the issue. We wish to thank all those who assisted us in this task and to pay homage to the countless people throughout the world that are resisting against this destructive activity.

• Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and the Extractive Industries
  15 April 2003 - Oxford, United Kingdom

• Demands of the Women and Mining Group (International Mining Workshop)
  Bali, Indonesia, 24 - 27 May 2002

• Statement of the International Mining Workshop
  Bali, Indonesia, 24 - 27 May 2002

• The London Declaration on Mining
  August 2001

• Solemn declaration by the Kanak Indigenous People (French version)
  New Caledonia, 23 August 2002

• Statement of Unity from the Peoples' Gold Summit

• Dapitan Declaration
  Philippines, 11 October 2002

• Manado Declaration on Submarine Tailings Disposal
  Indonesia, 23-30 April 2001

• South African Mining Summit Declaration
  13th - 15th December 2001

• Asia-Pacific Regional Statement, International Mining Workshop
  Bali, Indonesia, 24-27 May 2002

• Declaración de la Comunidad Académica y Científica Internacional, Las venas abiertas de la Cordillera de los Andes: NO AL ATROPELLO MINERO

• El oro de Colombia: rebelión social contra explotaciones mineras sin control - Por Guadalupe Rodríguez, Salva la Selva, Mayo/junio 2011

• Saca el metal y corre. Los países emergentes, la Unión Europea y las materias primas no energéticas del Sur global. Por Guadalupe Rodríguez, Salva la Selva, Junio 2011

• No dejemos que esto pase - Corto sobre minería en Argentia

• Carta Pública desde Honduras sobre la Industria Minera - Movimiento Madre Tierra Honduras - Julio 2007

• Documento del I Encuentro Nacional de Comunidades Afectadas por la Minería
  Buenos Aires - 24 y 25 de noviembre de 2003
  publicado en Ecoportal.net

• Picture of Women’s Life Devastation by Mining
  by Haris Retno Susmiyati

• Proyecto minero bajo la alumbrera
  Andalgalá – Catamarca – Argentina

• Explotación minera a pequeña escala con daños ambientales a gran escala
  Orosmayo - Liviara - Argentina

• Tunnel Vision: Women, Mining and Communities
  Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, November 2002

• Extractive Sectors and the Poor
  Oxfam America, October 2001

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CAMPAIGNS

Mines and Communities Website ("MAC")
"We want to make information on mining impacts, projects, and the corporate sector more widely available. Above all, we hope to empower mining-affected communities, so that they can better fight against damaging proposals and practices."

Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia
http://www.miningwatch.org/emcbc/index.htm

MiningWatch Canada
http://www.miningwatch.ca

The Mining News
http://www.theminingnews.org/

International Network "Women and Mining"
http://www.jatam.org/english/index.html

Mining Advocacy Network
http://www.iwam.net/

Mineral Policy Center
http://www.mineralpolicy.org/

Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales
Area de seguimiento a las actividades mineras
http://www.olca.cl/oca/mineras.htm

Mines, minerals & People
http://www.mmpindia.org/

No Dirty Gold
http://www.nodirtygold.org

Oro Sucio
http://www.orosucio.madryn.com/

No a la mina
Información sobre las luchas contra la minerí­a a gran escala en
Argentina y resto de Latinoamérica.
http://www.noalamina.org