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Mining in the Philippines: Concerns and Conflicts new

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Wkg_grp/Seaprise/Mining%20in%20the%20Philippines%20-%20Concerns%20and%20Conflicts.pdf

a report by CEESP and the Philippine Indigenous Peoples' Links looking at the massive environmental damage and the serious human rights abuses linked to the mining industry in the Philippines (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Brazil Gold Mining and Environment popular

http://www.american.edu/ted/BRAGOLD.HTM

4 out of 10 stars (10 votes)

a case study which investigates the environmental and social impacts of gold production in the Amazon region, from the American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Feb. 12, 2001 | Rate It

Mining popular

http://www.wrm.org.uy/deforestation/mining.html

4 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

articles published in the World Rainforest Movement bulletin that highlight mining as a major cause of deforestation
Added: Feb. 24, 2001 | Rate It

700 Mountains

http://www.700mountains.org/

campaign to stop destructive "mountain top removal" coal mining
Added: Oct. 13, 2007 | Rate It

Defensa y Conservacion Ecolgica de Intag (DECOIN)

http://www.decoin.org/

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

battles what they see as the greatest threat to the forests in Ecuador: mining companies that have thousands of acres of government-granted concessions
Added: Feb. 06, 2001 | Rate It

Earthworks

http://www.earthworksaction.org/

protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of mining, digging and drilling
Added: Aug. 26, 2004 | Rate It

End Mountaintop Removal

http://www.ilovemountains.org/

encourages action to stop the radical form of coal mining that involves mountaintop removal in Appalachia
Added: Feb. 14, 2008 | Rate It

GoldBusters

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/gold/

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

Rainforest Information Centre's campaign to call attention to the destructive impacts of gold mining, particularly in the World's rainforests
Added: Mar. 12, 2001 | Rate It

Mineral Policy Institute

http://www.mpi.org.au/

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

undertakes research and advocacy for better social and environmental practice in the minerals industry, and for mineral use efficiency and conservation
Added: Feb. 12, 2001 | Rate It

Mining in Papua New Guinea

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/papua.htm

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

an investigation of the impacts of multi-national company's exploitation of the country's extensive silver and copper deposits; including toxic waste, habitat destruction and inequitable benefit sharing
Added: Feb. 12, 2001 | Rate It

No Dirty Gold

http://www.nodirtygold.org/

provides an overview of the major social, environmental, and economic impacts of gold mining
Added: Feb. 14, 2005 | Rate It

Ok Tedi Page, The

http://www.rettet-die-elbe.de/oktedi/

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a critical look at the environmental and social impacts of this large mine in Papua New Guinea's rainforests by "Save the Elbe" in Germany
Added: Mar. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Save Lembeh

http://www.save-lembeh.info/

campaign against plans for a goldmine in the Lembeh-Pulisan-Bangka region of Sulawesi , Indonesia which is threatening an area of rainforest, a lagoon and large numbers of endemic species
Added: Jan. 06, 2007 | Rate It

Venezuelan Gold Mining

http://www.american.edu/ted/VENGOLD.HTM

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

looks at how destructive mining techniques are wreaking havoc on the Amazon rain forest, from the American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 12, 2001 | Rate It

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