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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

News “No Go Areas” for Extractives & Greater Protection for Sacred Natural Sites – the call from WILD10
Gaia was joined by international groups and indigenous leaders at WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), in calling for wilderness and conservation areas to be respected as No Go… Read More

Gaia Associate voted one of Colombia’s Top 10 Leaders
For protecting the Amazon and the rights of indigenous communities through forums for dialogue between society and the state, and defending cultural and biological diversity from the latent risks of development,… Read More

Communities in Colombia and Balcombe, UK, United in their Resistance against Extraction
Activists who are resisting a gold mine in Piedras, Colombia, have this week reached out to the communities of Balcombe in Sussex, to show solidarity and support for their parallel… Read More
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