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)
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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.
Venezuelan People and Forests Suffer as Gold Mining Advances
Article by Sarah Ruiz & Marco Belo, Global Forest Watch | March 25, 2021
Opinion: The world must act to stop Venezuela’s environmental destruction
Article by Francisco Dallmeier & Cristina V. Burelli, Washington Post | February 22, 2021
Human Trafficking Accompanies Illegal Mining in Venezuela’s Orinoco
Article by InsightCrime | February 9, 2021
Arco Minero Ecocide or Suicide?
Documentary by SOSOrinoco I February 1, 2021 (Spanish with English subtitles) I A documentary short and third-place winner of the 2021 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest, it contrasts the unique beauty of Venezuelan Amazonia with the human and environmental devastation caused by illegal mining in Southern Venezuela.
Gold, Nickel, Diamanten und jede Menge Gift
Article by Tom Mustroph, Neues Deutschland | January 13, 2021