While logging and deforestation has gained global attention the growing sand mining sector is being largely ignored. Fuelled by Singapore’s land and construction demands it is wreaking environmental destruction across south-east Asia
… their stocks plummet from sand dredging boats coming through their catch area; and … and were ‘rarely intercepted by customs boats or the navy’. It said 300 million cubic …
The recent death of Indian environmentalist Amit Jethva was the latest in a growing number of disturbing incidents of brutality and violence against activists, report Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt
Indian activists risk death to expose illegal logging, pollution and mining Ambika Hiranandani Tom Levitt | 14th December 2010 News Environmentalists Activists India Deforestation Natural World …