“The scarlet macaw in the gold mine”, 6 of February of 2017

…Researchers from Clark University, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), and Oxfam recently joined to study the current and potential impacts of mining on livelihoods in Honduras (full report forthcoming), and created a new online map that displays all mining concessions in the country. With the government recently declaring Honduras “open to mining,” Oxfam commissioned this research to help communities know and decide the future of their resources—no easy task in a country where those who speak out against such projects are threatened, and too often killed, for doing so…Our research team visited Copán Ruinas…[t]he region was chosen because four metallic mining exploration concessions were approved …[B]ut turns out, nobody really knew about the proposal…