by Jessica Sherman, Greengrants Volunteer The villagers of the San Andrés area of western Honduras now know what a river of dead fish looks like. An estimated 18,000 fish were casualties of a cyanide spill by a gold mining company, Minerales de Occidente (MINOSA), in an incident at the San Andrés open-pit gold mine on […]
Greengrants applauds Father Marco Arana, winner of Peru’s National Human Rights Award for 2004, awarded by the National Coordinator of Human Rights (NCHR), a coalition of non-governmental human rights organizations.
Kyrgyz Republic’s Kumtor Gold Mine began production in 1997. In May 1998, a truck containing twenty tons of highly toxic sodium cyanide used in the gold leaching process crashed into the Barksoon River and spilled 1.7 tons of its cargo into the waterway. What followed is testament to the power of citizen action in a […]
In a major victory for the people of Peruvian mountain towns near Newmontís massive Yanacocha mine, Newmont Mining Corporation has relented in its quest to expand the mine to Mount Quilish, a mountain that many consider sacred and where expansion would further endanger water quality and public health. Large-scale protests that mobilized 10,000 or more […]
by Jessica Sherman, GGF intern Despite continued threats of violence from timber interests, forest communities and movements staged a six-day march to Tegucigalpa to press the government to halt rampant destruction of the forests of Olancho. A tremendous turnout in this second year of the march seems finally to have gained the government’s attention and […]
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