Barrick says work to begin on huge open-pit mine in Andes

May 2009

Colombia

Could climate strategy take toll on forest peoples?

The Totobiegosode tribe, now with only 300 members, has wandered large expanses of the Paraguayan Chaco for centuries, settling periodically to work small plots, gather ......

Mexico

Mexico’s Copper Canyon region targeted for resort

For decades, the Copper Canyon has remained an under-appreciated jewel in Mexico’s tourism crown. Despite its spectacular network of hundreds of gorges—four of them deeper ......

Colombia

Rural development law rejected in Colombia

A recent ruling by Colombia’s highest court that overturns a rural development law will protect the nation’s wilderness and reaffirms an important new precedent in ......

Nicaragua

Illegal animal trade thriving in Nicaragua

In the heart of Managua’s sprawling Eastern Market, said to be the largest open-air market in Central America, the chirps of trafficked birds last month ......

Brazil

State land-clearing step irks many in Brazil

A new environmental code adopted by the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina has enraged green groups and prompted government watchdog agencies and Brazil’s environment minister ......

Around the Region

Barrick says work to begin on huge open-pit mine in Andes

Canadian mining giant Barrick says that in September it will begin work on Pascua Lama, a huge, open-pit gold and silver mine high in the ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

New initiative aims to bolster Atlantic Forest

A newly formed alliance of green groups, government agencies and private companies has set for itself the ambitious goal of returning Brazil’s fragmented Atlantic Forest ......

Q&A

Forest dwellers’ advocate details concerns about REDD

Tom Griffiths heads Responsible Finance at the Forest Peoples Program, a British non-governmental group advocating for the rights of forest-dwellers worldwide. He was educated in ......

Barrick says work to begin on huge open-pit mine in Andes

Canadian mining giant Barrick says that in September it will begin work on Pascua Lama, a huge, open-pit gold and silver mine high in the Andes that will straddle the border of Argentina and Chile. The announcement came this month after Argentine President Cristina Kirchner met with Aaron Regent, Barrick’s chief executive, in Buenos Aires. Barrick says the US$2.8 to 3 billion project marks the biggest foreign investment ever by a Canadian company. Project plans call for annual production of 700,000 ounces of gold and 25 million ounces of silver over 25 years. The mining site, high in the Andes, is partly within Chile’s Atacama region and Argentina’s San Juan province. Barrick has pledged the project will create 5,500 jobs during the construction... [Log in to read more]

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May 2009

Colombia

Could climate strategy take toll on forest peoples?

The Totobiegosode tribe, now with only 300 members, has wandered large expanses of the Paraguayan Chaco for centuries, settling periodically to work small plots, gather ......

Mexico

Mexico’s Copper Canyon region targeted for resort

For decades, the Copper Canyon has remained an under-appreciated jewel in Mexico’s tourism crown. Despite its spectacular network of hundreds of gorges—four of them deeper ......

Colombia

Rural development law rejected in Colombia

A recent ruling by Colombia’s highest court that overturns a rural development law will protect the nation’s wilderness and reaffirms an important new precedent in ......

Nicaragua

Illegal animal trade thriving in Nicaragua

In the heart of Managua’s sprawling Eastern Market, said to be the largest open-air market in Central America, the chirps of trafficked birds last month ......

Brazil

State land-clearing step irks many in Brazil

A new environmental code adopted by the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina has enraged green groups and prompted government watchdog agencies and Brazil’s environment minister ......

Around the Region

Barrick says work to begin on huge open-pit mine in Andes

Canadian mining giant Barrick says that in September it will begin work on Pascua Lama, a huge, open-pit gold and silver mine high in the ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

New initiative aims to bolster Atlantic Forest

A newly formed alliance of green groups, government agencies and private companies has set for itself the ambitious goal of returning Brazil’s fragmented Atlantic Forest ......

Q&A

Forest dwellers’ advocate details concerns about REDD

Tom Griffiths heads Responsible Finance at the Forest Peoples Program, a British non-governmental group advocating for the rights of forest-dwellers worldwide. He was educated in ......