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In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life

Over the past 27 years, mining for copper by Minera Escondida, a company co-owned by Anglo-Australian mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto, has resulted in a dramatic reduction of water levels in the Punta Negra salt flat in northern Chile, according to public defenders and Indigenous groups. Extraction of water for the company’s mining operations […]

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Peru: Illegal scheme titles lands for agriculture overlapping with indigenous communities - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Peru: Illegal scheme titles lands for agriculture overlapping with indigenous communities - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon
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In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms

In September 2015, officials from the agriculture agency of Peru’s Ucayali department arrived in the district of Masisea with one goal: to create a rural land registry in a forested area along the edge of the Masisea-Imiría Highway, a road that runs through a section of the Peruvian Amazon. That was the beginning of an […]

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On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

This article is a journalistic collaboration between Mongabay’s Latin America (Latam) team and Colombian digital news website Rutas del Conflicto. Ana Villa has traveled dozens of times on the highways of Vichada department in eastern Colombia, in service to her rural community. These trips can take up to 18 hours and cross an extensive savanna […]

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