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Severe Oil Contamination Found in the Largest National Reserve in Peru
Last week Peruvian governmental authorities released test results that prove alarming levels of contamination in Peru’s largest national reserve, Pacaya Samiria. The park has been declared a “wetland of international… Read More

Wake Up Call – Why the Tech Dream is becoming a Nightmare
Today we release Wake Up Call, a short animation unpacking the lifecycle of electronics, the system that drives this, and the impact that our grave modern addiction is having on Earth…. Read More

Global Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal in Ecuador
This week (13-17th January) the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature is holding its first international summit on the Rights of Nature in Ecuador. Around 50 Rights of Nature advocates and practitioners… Read More

“Women in Mining” event challenged by “Women resisting Mining”
Earlier this month the Gaia team and a number of allies joined forces with the London Mining Network to demonstrate outside the ‘Mines and Money’ conference at the Business Design… Read More

New Film – Seeds of Sovereignty
As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film offers a compelling insight into the ways in which African farming communities… Read More

Agriculture unable to adapt due to financial freeze in Warsaw, say developing countries
Press release from the Gaia Foundation. Monday 18 November 2013 [Warsaw, Poland] Adaptation in agriculture cannot happen without financial support, is the bleak message from developing countries at the UN… Read More

Seed Diversity Key to Weathering the Storms Ahead
Originally featured on the Thomson Reuters website, Gaia’s Teresa Anderson explains why seed diversity is critical for all that lies ahead. If the now-daily incidences of extreme weather events around the… Read More

News “No Go Areas” for Extractives & Greater Protection for Sacred Natural Sites – the call from WILD10
Gaia was joined by international groups and indigenous leaders at WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress (WWC), in calling for wilderness and conservation areas to be respected as No Go… Read More

GM agriculture is not the answer to seed diversity – It’s part of the problem
GM agriculture is not the answer to seed diversity – It’s part of the problem We need policies and practices that ensure farmers’ seed-saving knowledge is passed down to future… Read More

New Report says farming won’t adapt to climate change without seed diversity
The new report, “Seeds for Life: scaling up agrobiodiversity”, highlights how the dramatic loss of global seed diversity in recent decades means that farming systems around the world now and in… Read More
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