There is just one week to save a critically important rainforest in the Philippines, according to PlantBasedNews.com. Mount Kalabasiyon is one of the most important rainforests in South East Asia and is home to fifty indigenous groups and a number of important species. Over the years the coverage of this forest has reduced from 32,000 hectares to just 6,000. Now, the Higa-onon, an indigenous tribe, … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest – w/e 27th March 2021

As if fractious negotiations with the Chinese in Alaska weren’t enough, this week say an early test of the Biden’s commitment to the environmental agenda. The stock market index, S&P Global summarised the outcome as follows: “The Biden presidency in the U.S. was expected to bring about enthusiasm for the green revolution and the metals to fuel it. But faced with a decision to permit … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 20th March 2021

As we passed the one year anniversary of the global pandemic being declared, my children are finally back at school and there is hope that things might start to return to a semblance of normality in the UK. Over a million people now have had two doses of vaccine in the UK whilst other countries are stuggling to get the supplies they need, particularly in … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 13th March 2021

So this week we saw Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ordering an inquiry into the sale of protected areas of the Amazon rainforest via Facebook. Seems like the relevation, exposed by the BBC and covered in last week’s bulletin, couldn’t be ignored. Facebook has said it is “ready to work with local authorities”. I would hope so. Well done to the ‘beeb’ (what we in the … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 6th March 2021

This was the week that we heard it’s now social media platforms that are playing a role in the destruction of the rainforest. A recent news item in the UK’s The Telegraph reported on a BBC investigation that has revealed ‘Areas of land as large as 1,000 football pitches have been marked as for sale by third party merchants on the Facebook’. As if soaring … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 27th February 2021

So this week, as the G7 convened, Biden declared that USA is back on the international stage and the UK prime minister Boris Johnson urged other developed nations to join the effort to increase the global vaccine supply. On the topic of the environment, we also heard yesterday that the States has now returned to the Paris climate agreement. There is optimism that this signals … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 20th February 2021

This week the UK has been blasted by ‘the beast from the east #2’ – freezing temperatures and snow seem never ending. Still, spring is not far around the corner – my daughters and I were amused to hear an ice-cream driving around our block today, despite it being minus one degress centrigrade! This week we discovered that the impact of mining on the Amazon … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 13th February 2021

So this week we heard yet more startling facts about the destruction of the Amazon. This time the comparison is Israel – according to ABC News, an area of the Amazon rainforest equivalent to the size of Israel was destroyed last year. I remember when Amazonian rainforest destruction was measured in football pitches! But maybe we can find hope in Biden. ABC remind us of … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 6th February 2021

In a week where the world leaders at Davos promised ‘a great reset’, for me the highlight was Greta Thunberg who delivered a hard-htting message on the ecological crisis to the participants of the virtual summit. ‘You can’t negotiate with physics’ was her powerful punchline. How true. Elsewhere in the news, the plight of the Amazon continued to feature prominently. Ecowatch reported on a recent … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 30th January 2021

This week we welcomed in a new president of the USA and hopefully a new era for environmental protection in North America. Let’s hope that Biden’s first action action in office (returning to the Paris climate agreement) is indeed a sign of an ambitious approach to abating climate change. The BBC thinks so and reported: “Coming back to Paris really means it is no longer … Continue reading Forestmetal.org – weekly round-up of news relating to mining and the rainforest. Week ending 23rd January 2021