Around the world, nature reserves are coming under pressure from climate change, expanding agriculture and resource extraction. Together with colleagues from the Free University of Berlin, the University of Münster and the University Amazónica in Pando, Janpeter Schilling and Luise Werland use the example of the Manuripi nature reserve in northern Bolivia to show how resistance to industrial gold mining can succeed. In order to prevent the intrusion of a large mining company into the nature reserve, the local population used their social structures, such as the reserve's management committee, and drafted a resolution that clearly and successfully opposed the mining industry's plans. The entire article is freely available here.

Around the world, nature reserves are coming under pressure from climate change, expanding agriculture and resource extraction. Together with colleagues from the Free University of Berlin, the University of Münster and the University Amazónica in Pando, Janpeter Schilling and Luise Werland use the example of the Manuripi nature reserve in northern Bolivia to show how resistance to industrial gold mining can succeed. In order to prevent the intrusion of a large mining company into the nature reserve, the local population used their social structures, such as the reserve's management committee, and drafted a resolution that clearly and successfully opposed the mining industry's plans. The entire article is freely available here.