InSight Crime: Doubts Remain Over Venezuela’s Efforts to Stop Illegal Mining
Report by InSight Crime | February 17, 2023
References
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CGTN America on Twitter: "See how illegal mining is affecting the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela."
Via @cgtnamerica
All Party Parliamentary Group for Venezuela Hearing on Venezuelan Gold
AGM & Hearing from Cristina Burelli of SOS Orinoco, Dr David Soud and Louis Marechal of the OECD
Parliamentarians: Andrew Lewer MBE MP (Chair); John Spellar MP (Officer); Baroness Hooper (Officer);
Lord Mountevans (Officer), John Stevenson MP
For some Colombians, vows of mining reform are just a flash in the pan
Article by Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons, Mongabay I February 20, 2023
Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report
Article by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay I January 11, 2023
How ‘blood gold’ damages the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela
Article by Noelani Kirschner, ShareAmerica I January 5, 2023
Deforestation in Venezuela surges as gold miners ransack the Amazon
Article by Luke Taylor, NewScientist I December 9, 2022
The gold-mining city that is destroying a sacred Venezuelan mountain
Article by Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post I December 6, 2022
Au Venezuela, le mercure de l’activité minière empoisonne des communautés indiennes
Article by Marion Molinari, Ouest France I November 22, 2022
Venezuela Joins the Great Climate Con
Article by Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal I November 13, 2022
Stolen Amazon: The Roots of Environmental Crime in Five Countries
Report by InSight Crime I November 8, 2022
The Destruction of Venezuela’s Amazon Is Going Virtually Unnoticed
Article by Cristina Vollmer Burelli, Americas Quarterly I October 18, 2022