An Indonesian court dismissed a class-action suit seeking to force the Aceh provincial government to protect the threatened Leuser Ecosystem in its land-use plan.
Illegal gold mining in Peru has razed almost 62,500 hectares of rainforest—an area over ten times the size of Manhattan—over the past four years.
At the APEC the summit in Lima, China and Peru signed a series of bilateral agreements to advance "free trade" and cooperation in the mineral and resource sectors.
Blockades at the mammoth Bambas copper mine were relaxed after Peru's vice president flew in to meet with protesters, but local communities refuse to accept government terms.
Peru's National Forestry and Wildlife Service is investigating the death of some 10,000 frogs whose bodies have been found in the Río Coata, which flows into Lake Titicaca.
The first death due to a social conflict in Peru under new President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski came as campesinos clashed with National Police over the contested mine at Las Bambas.
Peru launched its first satellite into space this month, to monitor illegal mining, logging and other extractive activities in the country's vast stretch of the Amazon rainforest.
Máxima Acuña, the campesina who won the Goldman Environmental Prize for defense of her lands from a mining company, survived a new attack by security guards.
Coca-Cola is one of more than 50 companies to be charged with financing the now-disbanded Colombian paramilitary network AUC, a designated terrorist organization.
A deputy interior minister in Bolivia's government was abducted and killed by striking miners in a conflict over privatization of mineral claims on the Altiplano.
Outlaw mining operations are a growing sideline for Colombia's narco networks, in a nexus with paramilitaries and companies operating on the margins of the law.
The suspended governor of Peru's Cajamarca region Gregorio Santos was released from prison following a decision by the Supreme Court not to extend his "preventative detention."
