planetGOLD
“planetGOLD works to make small-scale gold mining safer, cleaner, and more profitable. Our vision is a clean global supply of gold from small-scale miners.”
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Forest Trends
“Together with partners around the world, Forest Trends pioneers innovative finance for conservation – promoting healthy forests, sustainable agriculture, clean water, robust climate action, protected biodiversity, and strong communities. Our programs and initiatives publish timely research, bring together diverse actors, and apply these approaches to make a difference on the ground, often blazing trails for bold and far-reaching policies in the process.”
Venezuela’s environmental crisis: ‘the beginning of a wave of destruction’
Article by Gideon Long, Financial Times I January 16, 2022
Les ravages de la ruée vers l’or au sud de l’Orénoque
Article by Patrick Bele, Le Figaro | December 29, 2021 (Page 14)
A Closer Look at Colombia’s Illegal, Artisanal, and Small-Scale Mining
Article by Ryan Berg & Henry Ziemer, CSIS | December 20, 2021
Stop Ecocide
““ECOCIDE” is a word to describe what is happening to our planet; the mass damage and destruction of the natural living world. It literally means “killing one’s home”. And right now, in most of the world, no-one is held responsible. We are working, together with a growing global network of lawyers, diplomats, and across all sectors of civil society, towards making ecocide an international crime.”
Why Venezuela’s “ecocide” must not be ignored
Article by Patrick Mulholland, The New Statesman | November 24, 2021 (Mentions SOSOrinoco)
Solidaridad Network
“Solidaridad is an international civil society organization with over 50 years of experience in developing solutions to make communities more resilient — from our early roots supporting repressed communities in Latin America to our current work fostering more sustainable supply chains. We currently work in over 40 countries, on five continents, through eight independently supervised regional offices.”
The Leaf Coalition
“The Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) Coalition’s goal to halt deforestation by financing large scale tropical forest protection. In 2021, the Coalition mobilized $1bn in financing, kicking off largest-ever public-private efforts to protect tropical forests.”
Leveraging Transparency to Reduce Corruption: Unpacking the status and challenges of illicit financial flows in the natural resource space
Article by Results for Development | November 17, 2021 (Mentions SOSOrinoco; Panel with Cristina Burelli)
The Governors, the Gang and the War for Bolívar's Gold
Investigation by InsightCrime | November 17, 2021
Indigenous Communities In the Amazon Suffer from the Maduro Regime's Environmental Assault
Article by Ryan Berg, CSIS I October 14, 2021