Hopped on the Tren Maya last month to see what all the fuss was about. My article for Mongabay 👇

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Despite Canada’s ‘climate forward’ public image, it acts as a safe haven for extractive industries and companies operating in Latin America, including regions of climatic significance.

// via Max Radwin

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Congratulations to our 2023 Environmental Journalism Award Winners!

We are proud to celebrate these twelve brave and resourceful people whose investigations and reporting elevate the public discourse on ecology and climate justice.

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El levantamiento de las sanciones sobre el oro y el petróleo podría frenar los esfuerzos de conservación en #Venezuela .
➡️Lea articulo de Max Radwin de Mongabay

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#Suriname is over 90% forest but the country is weighing land sales to Mennonite farmers, who've been a major driver of deforestation in other parts of Latin America. Story for Mongabay 👇
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Today marks 50 years since the 11 September 1973 coup in #Chile . Thousands of people were killed under Augusto Pinochet’s subsequent military regime. In order to move forward, Chile must secure justice, truth and reparation for the victims amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

The rise and fall of a king. A patrol through the jungle gone awry. Read my latest Mongabay feature on land rights in #Panama 👇
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In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in-pan…

Exceptional, essential piece by Max Radwin about what goes into making - and maintaining - an Indigenous kingdom.

A Mongabay feature.
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Critics question causes behind major new oil spill in #Ecuador 's Amazon

'If we’re talking about sabotage, the gov't would have to show the evidence it has+what the purpose of the sabotage was'-jorge acero, Lawyer AFrontlines

Max Radwin for Mongabay: bit.ly/3OABOV2

.Mineros S.A. Chemicals leaked from a processing plant of subsidiary #Hemco in a protected reserve in #Nicaragua contaminates 2 rivers with public health fallout for thousands of #INDIGENOUS people living nearby. news.mongabay.com/2023/05/chemic… Mongabay Max Radwin Anuradha Mittal

'Mennonite soy farms have been a main driver of deforestation...' in Bolivian Amazon

“What’s happened over last 30 years is a consolidation of the Mennonites, which is transforming the forest” Daniel M. Larrea

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Costa Rica announced an all-out ban on the fishing of hammerhead sharks. Despite being critically endangered, hammerhead sharks have been bought and sold in Costa Rica for years, with demand being driven by shark fin soup, reports Max Radwin.
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For a government that's banned mining, Nayib Bukele sure is doing a lot to promote mining.
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The Nicaragua govt stays quiet on what exactly is happening to the environment. But satellite data show severe encroachment into primary forests by ranching, mining and logging in 2022—threatening Indigenous communities.

Max Radwin reports for Mongabay
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New report: forests managed by Indigenous communities tend to be carbon sinks rather than carbon sources, while areas under different management are often less predictable.

Max Radwin reports for Mongabay
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Illegal gold mining accelerating deforestation in one of Venezuela’s most threatened national parks, new report from Amazon Conservation reveals

Good new overview of crisis in Yapacana National Park from Mongabay

Includes interview with SOS Orinoco

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Double hitter on Bolivia's lithium moves from Mongabay, Max Radwin and me
with input from gonzalo mondaca Juan Carlos Zuleta comcipo @ManuOliveraAnd Observatorio Plurinacional de Salares Andinos EnergyX NREL British Geological Survey and residents in Potosí

As the Bolivian government negotiates business dealings with foreign lithium companies, questions remain about the future of local desert ecosystems and the Indigenous communities that steward them, Max Radwin reports.
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“The foreign companies come here and enrich themselves on the country’s natural resources. And we’re the ones who pay for it.”

Indigenous communities in Chile detail the impacts of dam construction on their land in my latest w/Max Radwin for Mongabay

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