Special feature: The mining industry

World Conservation. January 2007. Pages 9 - 13

Five articles:

• MINE YOUR OWN BUSINESS
  Andrea Athanas of IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme examines whether the mining industry is improving its environmental and social record.


• FINDING COMMON GROUND
  Can mining companies and indigenous communities find common ground? IUCN and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) have promoted dialogue between the two groups. World Conservation spoke to both.


• VIEW FROM RIO
  World Conservation interviewed David Richards and Stuart Anstee, environmental policy advisers at Rio Tinto, about what their company is doing to improve its environmental and social record and why.


• THE JURY I STILLOUT
  World Conservation spoke to Dr Richard Cellarius, an International Vice President of the Sierra Club, the United States’ oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization. He says mining companies have a long way to go to become responsible corporate citizens.