About the project Puerto Natales is a town of 22,000 people in Chile’s southern Magallanes region, located on the shores of the Última Esperanza fjord and close to Torres del Paine National Park. For over four decades, salmon farming has expanded across the Patagonian...
Marian Women Producers Cooperative
About the project In Aroroy, Masbate (Philippines), the promise of gold has brought devastation instead of prosperity. Filminera Resources Corporation (FRC) is one of the Philippines' largest operating gold ventures and, in partnership with the Canadian mining company...
Kilusan para sa Repormang Agraryo at Katarungan Panlipunan (KATARUNGAN)
Further resources Criminalization against Filipino Peasants reaches the UN
Instituto Políticas Alternativas para o Cone Sul (PACS) / Tsikini
About the project and its impacts In Brazil, communities living in Santa Cruz, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, are affected by severe air, soil, and water pollution caused by a steel plant operated by Ternium Brasil, a subsidiary of Ternium S.A., a transnational...
Center for Environmental Justice
About the project In 2017, Gazelle Ventures Ltd, a Singapore-based company, proposed a sugarcane cultivation project in Rideemaliyadda, Sri Lanka, in partnership with the Sri Lankan company IMS Holdings (under the joint venture Bibile Sugar Industries). The US$ 152...
Kelompok Studi dan Pengembangan Prakarsa Masyarakat (KSPPM)
Further resources Can there be a fair remedy for the harm inflicted on Indigenous Peoples? On the company Toba Pulp Lestari and the actors behind it Activists call out ‘one of the worst actors in pulp and paper’ Toba Pulp Lestari: In depth on one of the worst...
Neighborhood Environment Watch Foundation
Further resources Neighborhood Environment Watch Foundation website Global Mining Companies Fuel Ecocide in Southern Africa, Displacing Indigenous Peoples and Violating Human Rights
Consejo Indígena Maya Ch’orti’ de Olopa
Asamblea de Pueblos Catamarqueños en Resistencia y Autodeterminación (Asamblea Pucarà)
Green Development Advocates
About the project "The moment the communities were excluded, that’s when things began to go wrong.” (Representative of Green Development Advocates, 2025) Financed by a range of regional and international financiers such as AfDB, EIB and the Cameroonian...
Community Development Advocacy Foundation
About the project and its impacts The Niger Delta stands as one of the most polluted regions in the world due to decades of environmental destruction caused by oil companies. Among the most prominent culprits are Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria...
Salam Movement
About the project Located in southern Georgia, the Kvemo Kartli region has long faced the harmful environmental, social and cultural impacts of gold and copper mining projects. In 2014, for example, the mining company RMG Gold destroyed the Sakdrisi...
