News & Press

12th September 2016 News

Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s wilderness in 25 years – study

Originally posted in the Guardian. Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last 25 years and there may be none left within a century if trends continue,… Read More

8th September 2016 News

Sacred Natural Sites Should Be ‘No Go Zones’ for Developers

Originally published on Ecowatch. A first round of motions was passed Tuesday by the 1,300 government and civil society members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)… Read More

6th September 2016 News

Gaia at the World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i

Here at the World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i, members of the Gaia Team are working with a twenty-strong delegation of indigenous custodians to protect the world’s oldest protected areas- sacred natural sites. Sacred… Read More

10th August 2016 News

STATEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KAHUʻĀINA GUARDIANS OF SACRED LANDS

Originally posted by Standing on Sacred Ground. Aloha Kākou. Aloha ʻĀina : Love and respect for lands and nature. As indigenous guardians of the sacred lands, oceans, waters and air… Read More

21st July 2016 News

Victory? British-backed MRC divests from South African mine

An Aussie mining company and its British millionaire-backer announced that they will pull out of the deadly proposed Xolobeni titanium mine, but it is unclear if they could still profit… Read More

21st April 2016 News

Peruvian farmer wins David-and-Goliath battle against US mining giant

Originally published in The Guardian. As owner of some of the largest and most lucrative gold mines in the world, Newmont Mining Corporation is used to getting its own way…. Read More

28th March 2016 News

New Finnish Forestry Act cold mean the end of Sami Reindeer Herding

Originally published in Intercontinental Cry. An article by Hannibal Rhoades. An unprecedented land grab will threaten the last old growth forests of Finnish Lapland and the homeland of the indigenous… Read More

12th September 2015 Gaia in the press

Podcast: How the myth of infinite growth and hyperconsumption are destroying Earth

In a new interview with Sputnik Radio Philippe Sibaud, Gaia trustee and author of our Short Circuit and Pandora’s Box reports, discusses how the global mania for electronic gadgets is destroying… Read More

9th September 2015 Gaia in the press

Our Resistance, Our Hope: Unity statement from the International People’s Conference on Mining

At the recent International People’s Conference on Mining in Manila, Philippines, The Gaia Foundation and our Ghanaian partner CIKOD united with members of communities resisting mining, social movements, NGOs, academics,… Read More

19th August 2015 Gaia in the press

African Biodiversity Network: Reflections on 20 years of work

The latest instalment of the African Biodiversity Network’s (ABN) excellent newsletter series celebrates and explores almost 20 years of ABN’s work to pioneer African solutions to the continent’s socio-economic and ecological… Read More

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