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Join us in welcoming Nchunu Justice Sama, Cameroonian Environmental Lawyer and Executive Director of the Foundation for Environment and Development (FEDEV). Justice arrived in Eugene last week to collaborate on his work to protect communities and the environment across Cameroon.

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Please join us in welcoming our new ELAW Fellows who arrived from Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo last week.

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ELAW was recently invited to participate in a conference organized by partners at the Alianza de Derecho Ambiental y Agua (Alliance for Environmental Law and Water, ADA2.) Attorney Alejandra Serrano Pavón traveled to Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, for the two-day conference organized in collaboration with Marfund, Ocean5, the Environmental Justice Forums of Peten and Izabal, the School of Judicial Studies of Guatemala, the Training Unit of the Public Ministry, and the National Council of Protected Areas.

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ELAW partner Olivier Ndoole shares great news that the mobile court formed to hear the large backlog of cases against wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, and natural resource exploitation in Virunga National Park.

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Juana Trujillo Cardenas, a new Ecuadorian lawyer, recently completed a Killian O. Doherty Environmental Justice Fellowship.

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Rahul Choudhary of Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) shares wonderful news!

India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) halted illegal sand mining in the villages of Tondavali and Talashil in Maharashtra State, on India’s west coast. The villages, squeezed between the Gad River and the Arabian Sea, suffer from soil erosion caused by illegal sand mining in the Gad River, and salt water intrusion from rising seas.
 

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Dr. Kateryna Polianska returned home to Kyiv last month, following a three-month ELAW Fellowship designed to help her team at Environment People Law respond to environmental threats posed by the Russian invasion.

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Please join us in welcoming new attorneys to the ELAW team!

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ELAW partners at Frank Bold Advocates share good news: Prague’s Municipal Court issued a landmark decision ordering the state to urgently take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance with its obligations under European and international law.

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ELAW Fellow Ivo Cípio Aureliano arrived in Eugene last weekend. He will work with us for 10 weeks this summer, collaborating with ELAW staff and other experts to advance his work protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon.

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After more than three years of learning and collaboration with our partners at the Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM), ELAW is pleased to report that Panama has adopted a new coral reef law, with stronger protections that hold the promise of protecting Panama’s reefs for future generations.

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This United Nations’ World Ocean Day, ELAW is collaborating with the Agua Nuestro Derecho collective to host a discussion on "Connectivity from the watershed to the Caribbean Sea."

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Last week, Nepal’s Supreme Court canceled government plans to construct an international airport in Nijgadh.

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The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP) issued a final report on its years long investigation into 47 investor-owned corporations for human rights abuses tied to climate change.

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Communities across Africa are watching single-use plastic flood into their countries, piling up as waste, filling drainage systems, and collecting in waterways, lakes, and oceans — and they want to push back.

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Indigenous Peoples Advocate joins ELAW for Killian O. Doherty Environmental Justice Fellowship

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Amidst the steady stream of painful news from Ukraine, we are inspired by the work of ELAW Fellow Kateryna Polianska and her co-workers at Environment People Law.

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We are pleased to welcome an outstanding ELAW Fellow from Ukraine!

The impact of humans damaging the climate is clear – sea level rise, drought, heat waves, more frequent and destructive hurricanes and typhoons, and much more. Protecting the climate may be the single greatest challenge of our time. ELAW partners are rising to meet the challenge.

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Join us in congratulating Rizwana Hasan, Chief Executive of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association. Today, Rizwana received a 2022 International Women of Courage Award from U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and First Lady Jill Biden.

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A South African high court has halted a seismic oil exploration project along South Africa’s West Coast.

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ELAW partners at the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) announced a stunning victory Wednesday, protecting a critical coral reef system in Veracruz from short-sighted plans to expand the Veracruz Port.

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ELAW partners around the world are working with communities to protect wetlands that support local livelihoods, mitigate impacts of climate change, and provide habitat for wildlife.

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Thousands of Indigenous people living along a tributary of Papua New Guinea’s Frieda River have filed a complaint to halt plans for Australian company PanAust’s proposed Frieda River Mine. If built, the gold and copper mine would be the largest mine in PNG, threatening the Sepik River and the entire Frieda River basin.

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“The Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria is winning big against plastic pollution in Canada. ELC’s latest victory was announced in Canada’s leading news outlets:

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Mexico’s Veracruz Reef System, a national park and RAMSAR site in the Gulf of Mexico, has suffered because of the expansion of the Veracruz Port. ELAW has joined partners at the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) to help protect and restore this critical ecosystem.

We faced challenges in 2021, with the climate crisis, global pandemic, political turmoil, and new threats to communities and ecosystems. But ELAW partners around the world give us hope. Together, we celebrate some recent victories and steps along the way towards a sustainable future.

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Royal Dutch Shell has pulled out of the controversial Cambo Oil Field project, off the Shetland Islands.

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On April 7, 2020, a massive oil spill struck Indigenous territories along the Napo and Coca rivers in the headwaters region of Ecuador’s Amazon.