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Green blood

An investigation, led by Forbidden Stories, exposing how journalists reporting on environment issues across the world are being harassed, jailed and killed for trying to expose the truth

6 March 2022

  • Guatemala nickel mine landscape

    ‘Consent was never given’: indigenous groups oppose restarting Guatemala nickel mine

    An investigation appears to show company employees discussing how to smear local opponents of the Central American nickel operation

19 July 2019

  • The Fenix site’s mining licence covers 250,000 sq km near Lake Izabal, Guatemala.

    Guatemala court upholds request to suspend work at huge nickel mine

    Campaigners say full consultation was not carried out before 2014 reopening of European-owned Fenix site

19 June 2019

  • Carlos Choc.

    How witnessing a police shooting put a Guatemalan journalist in danger

    Carlos Choc had to go on the run after seeing the violent repression of a protest at the Fenix mine
  • Guatemala Green Blood Video Loop

    The Guatemalans who pay the price for the west’s need for nickel

    A vast European-owned mine is operating near Mayan villages, sparking a battle for survival
  • The opencast Fenix mine, El Estor, Guatemala

    European-owned mine paid Guatemala just £1.4m in compulsory royalty taxes

    Swiss-based Solway group that runs Fenix nickel mine paid 1% on revenues from unrefined ore

18 June 2019

  • North Mara goldmine in Tanzania.

    Tech firms to check suppliers after mining revelations in Tanzania

  • Tanzania Videoloop trail

    Murder, rape and claims of contamination at a Tanzanian goldmine

  • Jabir Idrissa in Zanzibar, where he has moved to try to find new work.

    How writing about a goldmine cost a top reporter his job

  • Chief Marcelino Apurina, of the Aldeia Novo Paraiso in the western Amazon rainforest, which has suffered some of the heaviest deforestation in the region.

    What happens to environment journalists is chilling: they get killed for their work

    Mark Schapiro

17 June 2019

  • A dump truck in a nickel mine in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Environment reporters facing harassment and murder, study finds

  • A portrait of Jagendra Singh at his family home.

    Jagendra Singh: the Indian journalist burned to death

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