Venezuelan People and Forests Suffer as Gold Mining Advances
Article by Sarah Ruiz & Marco Belo, Global Forest Watch | March 25, 2021
Article by Sarah Ruiz & Marco Belo, Global Forest Watch | March 25, 2021
Article by Tom Mustroph, Neues Deutschland | January 13, 2021
Article by Tom Mustroph, Berlin Kultur | January 11, 2021
What exactly happened in Canaima on December 8-9, 2018?
Report by Lisseth Boon & Lorena Meléndez G. Alianza Rebelde Investiga | August 2020 (Mentions SOSOrinoco)
Report by Douglas Farah, Atlantic Council | August 13, 2020
Article by André Spigariol, Crusoé | July 31, 2020
Article by Cristina V. Burelli, CSIS | July 30, 2020
A year-long journalistic project dedicated to exposing the violence and corruption at the heart of Venezuelan gold production, and its connection to the rest of the world.
This situation report is produced by the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and Global Development One (GDO). It focuses on the malaria situation in Venezuela from January 2000 to June 2019, underscoring the role that the complex humanitarian crisis has played in more recent years. www.icaso.org
An in depth article by the Wall Street Journal discusses the content of the report presented by SOSOrinoco to International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN & UNESCO in July 2018 on the current gold mining situation in Canaima National Park: A World Heritage Site in Venezuela
Illegal mining within the Canaima National Park in #Venezuela, a World Heritage Site designated by @unescowhc.@NicolasMaduro gov’t is responsible for this ecocide. We should raise our voices against this ecocide @UNEnvironment @UN #sosOrinoco
Our position on
the Orinoco Mining Arc
The purpose of SOSOrinoco is to shed light on the existing body of work regarding the situation in the Amazonia and Orinoquia regions of Venezuela, to raise awareness of the tragedy that is occurring and to outline some urgent measures that need to be taken in order to halt the unfolding human and environmental disaster.