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  YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A rise in Chinese companies operating in Cameroon’s timber sector, combined with weak law enforcement, have fueled a surge in illegal logging that is fast depleting the nation’s forests, experts warn. But the government is hoping a new association it has set up for Chinese firms exploiting forests will …

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Nonhle Mbuthuma of Amadiba Crisis Committee shows the red sand at Kwanyana Beach near Xolobeni that is at the centre of the dispute. Photo: Loyiso Mpalantshane via Sustaining the Wild Coast.   The pristine landscape of South Africa’s Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the communities standing up to defend …

Mining, money and murder: the deadly struggle to protect South Africa’s Wild Coast  Read More »

UnderMining Agriculture: How the Extractive Industries Threaten our Food Systems, produced by The Gaia Foundation and global allies, exposes the hidden costs of mining on food, water, land, air and climate, showing how each is increasingly affected by toxins as the global land and water grab intensifies.   The world’s food production and millions of …

Under-Mining Agriculture: Global Food and Public Health Threatened by the Extractive Sector. Read More »

  In February, the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) received a 2016 EITI Chair’s Award for helping turn policy recommendations into actionable reforms at EITI’s global conference. GHEITI’s accomplishments include influencing the country’s mining fiscal regime and leading on the institutionalization of suabnational royalty utilization guidelines. Ultimately, the initiative increased the amount of extractive revenues data available to …

From Reports to Results: The Story Behind Ghana’s EITI Success Read More »