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ETFRN NEWS 43/44: Forests and conflicts
Prices roughly doubled. Some local people, particularly chiefs with land tenure authority and thus some authority over the coltan mining camps, gained important short-term benefits and power, as opening a coltan ... the profits from coltan were invested outside the Reserve, since most entrepreneurs in the Reserve were immigrants. Although the impact of coltan mining on the environment has ...
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Great Ape Trust of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
Democratic Republic of Congo, and completed a Venn ...
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WAR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund launched a Ł1 million campaign to combat the impact of coltan mining in eastern Congo, and Leonardo Di Caprio has launched a campaign to promote gorilla-safe mobile phones. One of the world's largest users of coltan ...
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International conservation reports
Coltan Mining in the DRC The wildlife of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been decimated ... for control over valuable natural resources. This report provides background to the extraction of coltan and recommendations for ways forward. Leaf Monkeys So called because of their highly-specialized ...
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MRF > Law & Policy > Conflict
Documents Resources Documents EC Chairmanship of the Kimberley Process, From conflict diamonds to prosperity diamonds. January 2007. European Commission. (Adobe PDF) Mining and Human under- ... Report Mining on or Near Ancestral Lands in the Americas. October 5th, 2005 Otawa, Canada. The North-South Institute and Assembly of First Nations, (2006). (Adobe PDF) Congo, Coltan, ...
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ETFRN NEWS 43/44: Forests and conflicts
Middle Magdalena lowland forest in the Central Cordillera from expanding agriculture, infrastructure and mining, their work under threat from paramilitary groups in the area. In Burma, the Pan ... the origin of the products offered from conflict areas such as timber, gold, diamonds or coltan and the violent circumstances under which the production takes place. Consumers should demand that ...
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Friends of Washoe: Action Alerts and Current Information
Gangu. In addition, we were told by Michel that a mining permit had been granted for Gangu itself (although no mine has ... far away as 300 km. Tragically, large-scale mining of minerals such as gold and coltan inevitably leads to massive degradation of the fauna ... population was decimated within a few years of the opening of coltan mines in the park). The miners themselves consume large amounts of ...
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Trust officials join chorus applauding EPA for call on cell phone recycling
Eco-Cell, recycling cell phones also reduces the demand columbite-tantalite – coltan for short. When refined, coltan becomes metallic tantalum, which has unique properties for storing an electrical charge ... natural resources –financed armed conflicts among competing groups in that unstable area of Africa. Mining of coltan, sometimes called “the new blood diamond,” is one of the factors ...
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The Jane Goodall Institute - Africa Programs
... /pastoral expansion, high levels of subsistence hunting, bushmeat extraction, exotic animal trade, extensive gold, coltan and other mining, as well as socio-economic depression resulting from more than a decade of civil ...
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Rainforest Concern - Recycling
Congo. Coltan is used to make the rare metal tantalum ... "). Thousands of endangered animals are being killed including elephants, chimpanzees and forest antelope. In one mining area over half the population of lowland gorillas has already been massacred. Please recycle your ...
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