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Max Radwin retweeted
.@MongabayOrg “The Biden administration talks a big game about using targeted sanctions to hold #HumanRights violators accountable in #Nicaragua, but @USTreasury lets the worst of these actors off the hook” - @joshmayer
@MaxRadwin reports on how intl’ mining firms like @CalibreMiningCo profit from @USTreasury’s failure to enforce sanctions against gold #mining in Nicaragua amidst increase in violence against #Indigenous communities: news.mongabay.com/2024/02/ha…
@Mittaloak @AmaruRuiz
Max Radwin retweeted
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 @MaxRadwin
news.mongabay.com/2023/09/ho…
Max Radwin retweeted
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.
Read more: sealawards.com/twelve-journa…
Max Radwin retweeted
El levantamiento de las sanciones sobre el oro y el petróleo podría frenar los esfuerzos de conservación en #Venezuela.
➡️Lea articulo de @MaxRadwin de @MongabayOrg
news.mongabay.com/2023/11/li…
Max Radwin retweeted
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/2…
Max Radwin retweeted
In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in…
Max Radwin retweeted
Exceptional, essential piece by @MaxRadwin about what goes into making - and maintaining - an Indigenous kingdom.
A @MongabayOrg feature.
news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in…
Max Radwin retweeted
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"-@jacero71, Lawyer @AFrontlines
@MaxRadwin for @MongabayOrg: bit.ly/3OABOV2
Max Radwin retweeted
.@Mineros_sa 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/ch… @MongabayOrg @MaxRadwin @Mittaloak
Max Radwin retweeted
"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” @LarreaAlcazar
news.mongabay.com/2023/02/bo…
@ACA_DC,@mongabay,@MaxRadwin,@AceaaAmazonica
Max Radwin retweeted
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 @MaxRadwin.
news.mongabay.com/2023/02/co…
Max Radwin retweeted
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.
@MaxRadwin reports for @mongabay
news.mongabay.com/2023/01/in…
Max Radwin retweeted
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.
@MaxRadwin reports for @mongabay
news.mongabay.com/2023/01/in…
Max Radwin retweeted
Illegal gold mining accelerating deforestation in one of Venezuela’s most threatened national parks, new report from @ACA_DC reveals
Good new overview of crisis in Yapacana National Park from @mongabay
Includes interview with @SOSOrinoco
news.mongabay.com/2023/01/ve…
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Max Radwin retweeted
Double hitter on Bolivia's lithium moves from @mongabay, @MaxRadwin and me
with input from @MondacaWaliki @jczuleta @ComcipoOficial @ManuOliveraAnd @OPSAL_ @energyx @NREL @BritGeoSurvey and residents in Potosí
Max Radwin retweeted
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, @MaxRadwin reports.
news.mongabay.com/2022/12/fi…
Max Radwin retweeted
#MakingHeadlines Thank you @MaxRadwin for an excellent writeup on this victory for the Shuar Kiim Community 🙌
Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land news.mongabay.com/2022/07/in… via @Mongabay
Max Radwin retweeted
“I am deeply disappointed that the @USTreasury, the IFC’s largest shareholder, voted to approve this terrible loan & did not do more to hold @IFC_org management accountable for upholding their own policies and mandates”
news.mongabay.com/2022/07/wo… via @MaxRadwin @Mongabay
Max Radwin retweeted
My tribute to @domphillips and @tuyu_bruno via an op-ed for @mongabay. We are all heartbroken and scared by their murder but we’ll keep fighting and demanding justice. What happened to Dom and Bruno could have happened to any of us. #JusticaParaDomEBruno #JusticeForDomAndBruno
"Since I became an environmental journalist 6 years ago, my family, friends & acquaintances all labeled me “crazy.”
Our Brazil editor @karlamendes discusses recent events in her country in a new op-ed: bit.ly/3HvH9Hq
Max Radwin retweeted
"Since I became an environmental journalist 6 years ago, my family, friends & acquaintances all labeled me “crazy.”
Our Brazil editor @karlamendes discusses recent events in her country in a new op-ed: bit.ly/3HvH9Hq