Month: May 2007

Struggles in Uganda over Forests and a Dam

The last few weeks in Uganda have been marked by a protest to protect the Mabira Forest Reserve from a sugarcane plantation and the World Bank’s decision to finance the Bujagali Dam on the Nile River by Lake Victoria.

Launch of Newest Member of Greengrants Alliance of Funds–Fondo Accion Solidaria!

The newest member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds announces its launch! We welcome Fondo Acci³n Solidaria of Northwest Mexico.

Buyat Bay, Indonesia: Newmont Mining Acquitted of Pollution Charges

In a setback for environmental accountability in Indonesia, Newmont Mining Corporation was acquitted last month by an Indonesian court of pollution charges and endangering peoples’ health in Buyat Bay.

Greengrants Grantee receives Goldman Environmental Prize

Julio Cusurichi of the Federation of Natives of the Madre de Dio River, Peru receives prestigious international environmental prize.

Peruvian Activist Father Arana is Threatened for Work against Mine

Father Arana of GRUFIDES, a grassroots group in Peru working on issues of extractive mining impacts, has been threatened by masked men and followed a mining company vehicle from the Yanacocha Mine, owned by Newmont Mining Corporation.

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