by Jessica Sherman, Greengrants Volunteer The villagers of the San Andrés area of western Honduras now know what a river of dead fish looks like. An estimated 18,000 fish were casualties of a cyanide spill by a gold mining company, Minerales de Occidente (MINOSA), in an incident at the San Andrés open-pit gold mine on […]
Wang Yongchen, co-founder of the Chinese organization Green Earth Volunteers, was awarded the 2004 Condé Nast Traveler Environmental Award in November. Wang, who is also a journalist, was recognized for her work in organizing an unprecedented public campaign against plans to build 13 dams on the Nu River. That campaign resulted in an April 2004 […]
by Evan Jones, Greengrants Grants Manager Indonesian environmental and human rights groups earned a major victory in November, when the official results of a long-awaited study on levels of heavy metal contamination in Buyat Bay were finally released to the public. The study confirms what several grassroots groups and scores of Buyat Bay residents have […]
by Alicia Stender and Kielly Dunn On February 2, 1997, Christopher Martin Colorant died at home in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India. He was 33 years old. According to his mother, during the 11 years he worked at the Hindustan Lever Limited Thermometer Factory (a subsidiary of Unilever), he suffered from a variety of health ailments, […]
A controversial government decision to grant permits for gold mining in Ghana’s dwindling forest reserves threatens the survival of the forest and of the people who depend on the forest to meet their basic needs. Two Greengrants grantees are on the front lines of this battle: Wassa Association of Communities Against Mining (WACAM) and the […]
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