Their Ancestral Traditions Under Threat, a Village in Russia’s Far East Stands Up to Gold-Mining Giant

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and pass these skills on to future generations of our people
unchecked gold mining leads to deforestation and water pollution, while airborne chemical dust particles from the mines settle on moss eaten
there are fewer than 70,000 ethnic Evenks worldwide
like snowmobiles
mine near Tyanya, in 2007
It has since expanded its work in the area to two additional mines, Gross and Tokko, which produce over 20 tons of gold per year
on the environmental damage inflicted by their operations, official documents are unlikely to reflect the real picture, according to
governance (ESG) impacts of its operations inadvertently reveal efforts to conceal its turbulent relations with the Indigenous people of
Tyanya, according to Ekaterina Zibrova, a specialist in diversity, equity and inclusion at The Wits Center for Diversity Studies in
Nordgold
though her name was strikingly absent among the signatories of the latest letter to Putin.But not everyone in the community thinks that
act against the interests of his protege Mordashov.But expert Zibrova, an ethnic Evenk herself, said she believes that expressing loyalty to
between two overpowering systems
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