"The only thing could be that someone in the Executive is interested in seeing the logging, illegal mining, coca cultivation and narco-trafficking in the region continuing to prosper".
Logging, gold-mining, coca cultivation and narco-trafficking were highlighted by some media as ongoing threats to the new park, but why such failure to acknowledge what is possibly, in the long-term, the most serious threat of all?
Concrete samples were exposed to different aggressive media under laboratory conditions (acid mine drainage, cultivation media for different bacteria species, sulphuric acid, aluminium sulphate) as well as in situ (waste water of sewage system in Kosice city) for 3 months.
South of here, more than 5,000 peasants marched to the town of Anorí in January to protest military operations against gold mining and coca cultivation.
The highly suitable habitats of the species, distributed in patches at various pockets of the study area, is already under threat due to anthropogenic activities such as road construction, shifting cultivation, mining, and grazing.
People interviewed on the ranch were mostly positive about innovations that were seen as bringing in immediate tangible benefits/income (e.g. sand mining, manure sale, crop cultivation).
The increasing complexity of common property use requires responsive policies to address emerging 'new' land use changes (e.g. tourism, cultivation, sand mining and others) in previously purely pastoral grazing land.
Our study was conducted to understand the appropriateness of contaminated soils from old mining area, for vegetable cultivation, to assess the metal uptake in vegetables and the potential health risks associated with human consumption of these vegetables contaminated with heavy metals.
They spanned remote rural areas dominated by herding and farming activities (Amboseli: Burn Silver 2009; Longido: Chenevix Trench et al. 2009) to areas with commercial cultivation and mining (Tarangire: Sachedina and Chenevix Trench 2009), to peri-urban sites (Kitengela: Nkedianye et al. 2009) where land leasing, marketing produce and off/non-farm employment are important income streams (Table 2).
Urban violence has been attributed to clashes between illegal armed groups and government forces, activities of post-demobilization groups, disputes over the control of urban areas that include profitable micro-drug trade, forced recruitment or labor, and pressure on communities to engage in illegal mining and illicit plant cultivation [ 24, 27].
