In a major victory for the people of Peruvian mountain towns near Newmontís massive Yanacocha mine, Newmont Mining Corporation has relented in its quest to expand the mine to Mount Quilish, a mountain that many consider sacred and where expansion would further endanger water quality and public health. Large-scale protests that mobilized 10,000 or more […]
A common thread connects several Greengrants grantees that have made international headlines recently. Grassroots groups in places as far flung and culturally distinct as Peru, Romania and Indonesia have had major breakthroughs in battles to protect local lands, ecosystems and their communities from gold mining projects in which Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation has been a […]
Mozambique has a history of corruption and injustice, but recently, Mozambicans have begun to demand change. In 1994, Mozambique held its first free elections after years of colonial rule and civil war. A government previously controlled by a powerful elite is yielding to influence from citizens. Livaningo, Mozambique’s first environmental NGO, has been important both […]
by Jessica Sherman, GGF intern Despite continued threats of violence from timber interests, forest communities and activists staged a six-day march to Tegucigalpa to press the government to halt rampant destruction of the forests of Olancho. A tremendous turnout in this second year of the march seems finally to have gained the government’s attention and […]
Note: Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), a Lesotho community development and human rights group, is working to bring moderation to the controversy over one of the largest dam building projects in the world. It’s getting help from an unlikely and very distant source: India’s famed Narmada Bachao Andolan. The six-dam Lesotho Highlands Water Project, designed […]
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