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New Report – Mining and its Impacts on Water, Food Sovereignty and Sacred Natural Sites in Uganda
A New Report Calls for No Go Areas for Mining and Extractive Activities as Threats to Water, Food Sovereignty, and Sacred Natural Sites and Territories Increase Across Africa. A new… Read More
Kayapo Chiefs Raoni and Megaron say ‘Yes to Life, No to Mining and Mega Dams’
On the 10th of June The Gaia Foundation was honoured to host Kayapo Chiefs Raoni Metuktire and Megaron Txucarramae as they passed through London on their European tour. The meeting brought together… Read More
The Transformation of Pluspetrol’s Oil-slicked Reality into an Award-winning Fallacy
Taken from the Alianza Arkana website. Read the original article and report here. Argentinian-based oil company, Pluspetrol, long-time contaminator and human rights violator, won the “2013 Sustainable Development Award” from its industry… Read More
Colombian and Ghanaian Communities Unite in Solidarity Against Mining
Kindling an international correspondence across 5,000 miles of land and sea, last week anti-mining activists from Doima (Colombia) and Krobo (Ghana) reached out to one another to express solidarity in… Read More
Nothing in Nature is Wasted – Why shouldn’t business be the same?
An article by Rowan Phillimore, originally published in The Guardian – Gaia Principles Offer a Sustainable Way to Manage Supply and Legacy – Monday 10th February 2014 A study of… Read More
Judges travel to the Amazon for public hearing on Yaigoje Apaporis and gold mining
Three members of the Constitutional Court have made an unprecedented trip to the heart of the Amazon forest, to settle a three-year legal battle on the future of Colombia’s third… Read More
The Year in Review – Gaia’s 2013 Highlights
2013 was another exciting year for Gaia and our partners. In particular, we built the momentum of two key areas of work – exposing the true story of seed and… Read More
Severe Oil Contamination Found in the Largest National Reserve in Peru
Last week Peruvian governmental authorities released test results that prove alarming levels of contamination in Peru’s largest national reserve, Pacaya Samiria. The park has been declared a “wetland of international… Read More
Wake Up Call – Why the Tech Dream is becoming a Nightmare
Today we release Wake Up Call, a short animation unpacking the lifecycle of electronics, the system that drives this, and the impact that our grave modern addiction is having on Earth…. Read More
“Women in Mining” event challenged by “Women resisting Mining”
Earlier this month the Gaia team and a number of allies joined forces with the London Mining Network to demonstrate outside the ‘Mines and Money’ conference at the Business Design… Read More
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