‘Brought down by gold’: Communities and nature suffer amid Nigerian bonanza

Mongabay
Mar 3, 2023, 2:12 pm101 pts
LAGOS — Across Atorin-Ijesha in southwestern Nigeria, the clatter of stones fills the air as excavators aggressively dig into the soil. Gold miners work from dawn till dusk excavating the earth. There are fortunes to be made here in the Yoruba heartland — but at a terrible cost to communities in…

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