The indigenous Shawi people repeat their call for protests in defense of their territory in the tropical rainforest. This time the threat is in the form of the world's leading gold mining company: Barrick Gold Corporation.
Peru: forest inhabited by the indigenous Shawi to be handed over to Canadian mining firm
WRM Bulletin 49
8 August 2001
Issues: Struggles for the Forests / Seeds of Hope / Large-Scale Mining
Countries: Peru
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