One Flew Over a Beach Sand Mining Pit, Sénégal
An astounding video by l’Institut National de L’Audiovisuel.
Illegal Beach Sand Mining, Togo, a Video
Despite a recent law prohibiting sand mining on Togo’s beaches, illegal sand mining continue, unabated.
Facing Tough Times, Barbuda Continues Sand Mining Despite Warnings
Officials are dismissing warnings by environmentalists that sand mining has exceeded safe limits and that its continuation is placing Barbuda, the tiny island in the Antigua and Barbuda union, at ever-greater risk from storms and sea level rise…
Round-The-Clock Protest to Check Beach Sand-Mining, Kerala, India
A woman and her three children have been staging a protest in front of the Collectorate since July 11 demanding action against illegal extraction of beach sand from near her home at Puthiyangadi.
Sand Thieves Are Eroding World’s Beaches For Castles Of Cash
The pillaging of sand is a growing practice in the world. Taken by hand, three or four meters deep in the Maldives archipelago, or transported on a donkey, or sucked up by huge sand boats in Asia, coastal sand mining, authorized or unlawful, is exploding.
Black Sand Mining Unabated, Watchdog Says
Black sand mining in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, continues to thrive despite an order from higher police and environmental authorities for a more aggressive campaign against the illegal activity…
Sand Mining Will Continue to Relocate Families in Sierra Leone
For people desperate to earn a living, this all translates into break-neck, environmentally disastrous, 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operations to carry hundreds of tonnes of sand from the beaches and sell it to builders as construction material. Not much is being done to stop what is almost a military operation…
Jobless Youths Revert to Beach Sand Mining, John Obey Beach, Sierra Leone
There´s a construction boom in Sierra Leone. For people desperate to earn a living, this all translates into break-neck, environmentally disastrous, 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operations to carry hundreds of tonnes of sand from the beaches and sell it to builders as construction material.
Illegal Sand Mining, Banks of the Yamuna River, India
The rain managed to do what the district administration could not for long. The continuing downpour has dampened illegal sand mining operations along the Yamuna river. The officials cited the vast ecological destruction along the Konkan coast as an example of the destructive nature of such illegal sand mining.