Venezuela’s environmental crisis: ‘the beginning of a wave of destruction’
Article by Gideon Long, Financial Times I January 16, 2022
Tag: Illegal mining
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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
Why Venezuela’s “ecocide” must not be ignored
Article by Patrick Mulholland, The New Statesman | November 24, 2021 (Mentions SOSOrinoco)
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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
Gold Flows from Venezuela: Supporting due diligence on the production and trade of gold in Venezuela
Report by the OECD I September 8, 2021
The Scale of Illegal Coltan Trafficking in Colombia and Venezuela
Article by Juan Camilo Jaramillo, InsightCrime | August 18, 2021 (Mentions SOSOrinoco)
Canaima World Heritage Site: Controversy at the 44th Session of the World Heritage Centre (UNESCO) in Fuzhou, China - July 16-30, 2021
Three years after SOSOrinoco started to inform the World Heritage Centre and publishing multiple reports about the critical illegal mining situation, the Maduro Regime finally sent a report on Canaima. The World Heritage Centre emitted a resolution that was approved without discussion or amendments on July 23, 2021
A Vast South American Wilderness Is Under Siege From Illegal Mining
Article by YaleEnvironment360 | August 5, 2021
2021 Report World Heritage Watch - Report on Canaima World Heritage Site
The year 2020 marked the 58th anniversary of the founding of Canaima National Park, a World Heritage Site (CNP-WHS), celebrated while the park lay under siege by the illegal mining operations inside its boundaries as well as in adjacent areas.