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NAPE supports community resistance to oil extraction in Uganda as new report’s messages spread
New Report, New Consciousness This July, in partnership with Gaia, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) released a landmark reportchallenging the Ugandan Government’s plans to allow large-scale oil extraction in… Read More
Save the iMfolozi Wilderness Area in South Africa – Urgent Action Needed
Please sign the petition and say NO to the Fuleni Anthracite project! We are shocked and saddened to be sharing the news that the historic iMfolozi Wilderness Area in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi-Park(HiP) of… Read More
New Report – Mining and its Impacts on Water, Food Sovereignty and Sacred Natural Sites in Uganda
A New Report Calls for No Go Areas for Mining and Extractive Activities as Threats to Water, Food Sovereignty, and Sacred Natural Sites and Territories Increase Across Africa. A new… Read More
Benin’s Historic Sacred Forest Law Translated into English
GRABE-Benin and The Gaia Foundation are pleased to share a much awaited English translation of the 2012 Beninese law recognising sacred forests and their custodian communities. This significant precedent for the legal… Read More
Kayapo Chiefs Raoni and Megaron say ‘Yes to Life, No to Mining and Mega Dams’
On the 10th of June The Gaia Foundation was honoured to host Kayapo Chiefs Raoni Metuktire and Megaron Txucarramae as they passed through London on their European tour. The meeting brought together… Read More
10 Good News Stories from the Worldwide Movement Against the GM Industry
In recent weeks there has been a wave of good news stories from the movement to keep GM crops (and toxic pesticides) out of our fields, out of supply chains… Read More
Hungry for Land: Small Farmers Feed the World on Less than a Quarter of the Land
Extract taken from GRAIN’s website. Full article and pdf of the reports are available here. “It is commonly heard today that small farmers produce most of the world’s food. But how… Read More
The Transformation of Pluspetrol’s Oil-slicked Reality into an Award-winning Fallacy
Taken from the Alianza Arkana website. Read the original article and report here. Argentinian-based oil company, Pluspetrol, long-time contaminator and human rights violator, won the “2013 Sustainable Development Award” from its industry… Read More
UN Climate experts: Green Revolution leaves food systems vulnerable to climate change
The United Nations’ experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have stated that the so-called “green revolution” is leaving agriculture vulnerable to climate change, and that new approaches… Read More
Colombian and Ghanaian Communities Unite in Solidarity Against Mining
Kindling an international correspondence across 5,000 miles of land and sea, last week anti-mining activists from Doima (Colombia) and Krobo (Ghana) reached out to one another to express solidarity in… Read More
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