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Mining as a threat to the Commons: the case of South America

1st Dec 2013
The increase in areas given over to mining concessions in South America has involved profound disruptions of ecosystems and the communities that have depended on them for centuries. Communities have lost access to their most valued properties that they customarily shared in a sustained manner. (César Padilla / The Wealth of the Commons)

Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’

16th Nov 2013
Indonesia’s rainforests are facing “legal land grabs,” nongovernmental organizations have alleged. Its ancient communities are finding that ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation. (Jakarta Post)

Swallowed by coal: UK profits from Indonesia’s destructive mining industry

30th Oct 2013
Funded by British investment, mining brings deforestation, health problems and pollution to Samarinda, part of 'coal's last frontier' (Vidal / The Guardian)

Mining referendums in Colombia, Guatemala

17th Oct 2013
In Colombia and Guatemala three rural and indigenous communities vote on mining projects and demand the right to free, prior and informed consent. (LAMMP)

The Mexican village that got itself talking

15th Oct 2013
The Mexican village of Talea de Castro has long been ignored by Mexico's mobile phone companies as too remote to put on their networks, but as the BBC's Will Grant reports, they have responded by building their own. (BBC)

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