Reviewing existing scientific papers, the WWF’s research highlighted numerous physical impacts attributable to sand mining from changes in the shape of river beds and floodplains to alterations to instream habitats, groundwater reserves and water quality.

With the global demand for sand and gravel standing at 40 to 50 billion tonnes per year, a new report by UN Environment reveals that aggregate extraction in rivers has led to pollution, flooding, lowering of water aquifers and worsening drought occurrence.

Apr 17, 2020 · Not only does mining endanger the completion and overall success of the DRAVA LIFE and other EU-funded projects centered on the river, but it will also degrade the fragile riverine ecosystem, the heart of the Amazon of Europe.

May 13, 2020 · The Drava River is currently under several layers of protection – the Mura-Drava Regional Park, Mura-Drava-Danube Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, and it is part of the NATURA 2000 ecological network – which is why it is necessary to assess how any potential intervention will impact all target species, habitats and conservation goals in the ...

What are the impacts of mining? Mining can impact the area’s water drainage, pollute water with run-off from the mine, and threaten local communities, including indigenous people, by affecting the quality of the food supply.

In the upper catchment of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Western Province lies the country's biggest money-maker: the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine. Churning out some 80,000 tonnes of waste rock per day, Ok Tedi also has another distinction: probably the most polluting asset in the country.

Nov 19, 2018 · Healthy Rivers, Healthy People highlights the dangers mercury pollution poses across the Amazon and calls for urgent action to reduce the use of mercury in small-scale gold mining to protect the world’s largest river system and the people and species that depend on it.

Nov 30, 2017 · Several world-class iron ore deposits lie beneath the forest and international mining companies are keen to develop this potential. The dam the driver told you about is real, a huge 600MW hydropower dam is being planned to power the future mines.

The long-term value of a healthy ocean far outweighs the short-term profits offered by deep seabed mining. Opening up this new frontier for extraction would destabilize delicate ocean ecosystems and fatally undermine the foundations of a circular ocean economy.

Besides the species themselves, these efforts have led to identifying broader threats to conservation (such as mining, oil exploitation, over fishing, illicit crops, etc.), as well as key ecosystems which need to be protected.