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Mining companies are trying to reinvent themselves as the deliverers of clean, green, sustainable minerals and metals needed in the renewable transition. But a new report from London Mining Network,… Read More

Deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains Earth defenders from Cajamarca have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop… Read More

New UN research has revealed that resource extraction is responsible for 80% of biodiversity loss and 50% of the world’s carbon emissions. Here, in a short article written for Friends… Read More

Media Release. 22/03/2019 – World Water Day 2019   “You cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.” – Lynn Noel. On World Water Day 2019,… Read More

Today we are celebrating, alongside our friends and allies in South Africa, a landmark ruling in South Africa’s Constitutional Court that “will fundamentally shift the power dynamics between mining-affected communities… Read More

From the 19-26th of October, we will welcome South African Earth Defender Nonhle Mbuthuma to the UK for a series of events highlighting her community’s struggle to protect their lands and… Read More

On Wednesday 27th June, Spanish campaigners attended the AGM of London-listed mining company Atalaya Mining to raise concerns about the company’s operations across Spain. Atalaya, which is listed on London’s… Read More

  Gaia joins civil society organisations and campaigners in Spain voicing their opposition to three Spanish mining projects related to UK-listed mining company Atalaya. The mining operations are opposed by… Read More

Last month international solidarity from Honduras, Romania and Galicia flowed to community organisations resisting  a planned gold mine in Northern Ireland’s Sperrin Mountains. Story originally published by London Mining Network. … Read More

Gaia’s Hannibal Rhoades and Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello meet the activist, ethnobotanist and business leader strengthening life-sustaining alternatives to destructive, conflict-ridden mining in Colombia. Originally published in Red Pepper Magazine. On the 26th March… Read More