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Voices From the Ground: how the global mining industry is profiting from the COVID-19 pandemic
While fossil fuels, aviation and other dirty industry’s have found themselves in the spotlight during COVID-19, to-date the mining industry has received little scrutiny. But this doesn’t mean mining companies… Read More

International Day for Biodiversity: Indigenous and local communities nurture life
“There is no God bigger than the sun, the moon, the air and the water… No matter how tall our buildings get and how high in the sky we fly, if… Read More

The Ecologist: Reviving nature and culture in Uganda
The Bagungu People are reviving indigenous practices and ecosystems in one of Africa’s most biodiverse regions. Gaia’s Head of Communications, Hannibal Rhoades, explores more in this article for The Ecologist…. Read More

Media Release: New film explores cultural and ecological revival in Uganda’s Great Lakes region
31st March 2020. Kampala | London – In the midst of climate emergency and a global coronavirus pandemic caused by ecological destruction, a Ugandan Indigenous community is demonstrating the vital… Read More

Navigating coronavirus: plant seeds, buy local, care for community
Any crisis brings out the best and the worst in humanity. Like many of you, we in the Gaia Team are talking about, thinking about and taking action in response… Read More

Snowchange: Training the next generation of ice fishermen
In a new interactive story, Gaia’s Finnish partner organisation the Snowchange Cooperative share their efforts to train young people in Finland’s ancient ice-fishing traditions, as the impacts of climate change… Read More

PRESS RELEASE: New report names top British companies responsible for toxic mining legacies
Mining companies are trying to reinvent themselves as the deliverers of clean, green, sustainable minerals and metals needed in the renewable transition. But a new report from London Mining Network,… Read More

In Defence of Life: the story of Cajamarca, Colombia
Deep in the embrace of the Colombian Andes Mountains Earth defenders from Cajamarca have stopped a vast gold mine, re-valued the ‘true treasures’ in their territory and begun to develop… Read More

Documentary: The Finnish village restoring climate-critical ecosystems
“Humans will only succeed by pulling together.” In a new 12-minute mini-documentary from BBC Newsnight, Tero Mustonen, from Gaia partner organisation the Snowchange Cooperative, shares how Finnish villagers from Selkie… Read More

Chico Mendes Vive!
The 22nd of December marks 31 years since the assassination of Chico Mendes, the Amazonian rubber tapper who was killed for his tireless work to defend the rainforest that was his home,… Read More
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