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        • Shrimp Farming
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        • The Green Economy
        • Conservationism
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Large-Scale Mining

Fueled by ever-increasing demand and the boom-and-bust cycles of global commodity markets, large-scale mining destroys forests and pollutes soil, air and water. Violent conflicts, sexual exploitation, criminalization and displacement of communities living in forests destroyed for mining, are examples of social impacts that are inherently linked with the mining industry.

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Large-scale investments and climate conservation initiatives destroy forests and people’s territories

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Saca el metal y corre. Los países emergentes, la Unión Europea y las materias primas no energéticas del Sur global

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The direct and underlying causes of forest loss

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