Our data suggested negative effects of mining on small mammal diversity and the restoration of species diversity and important ecological processes after rehabilitation of altered habitats.
Mining poses serious and highly specific threats to biodiversity. However, mining can also be a means for financing alternative livelihood paths that, over the long-term, may prevent biodiversity loss. Complex and controversial issues associated with mining and …
Mining clears the forest to dig excavation pits and access roads. But the report stressed that more attention needs to be paid to the indirect impacts of mining, such as the construction of ...
Facilities that store the waste and tailings of mining operations pose a salient threat to biodiversity. Despite international consensus to mitigate mining impacts on local …
Mining poses serious and highly specific threats to biodiversity. However, mining can also be a means for financing alternative livelihood paths that, over the long-term, may …
The mining sector could potentially be a leader in this respect. Good sectoral standards and guidelines already exist on how to manage biodiversity (and ecosystem services). However many of these may be new to finance sector actors who are seeking to identify and manage the biodiversity risks created by their investments in the …
Complex and controversial issues associated with mining and biodiversity conservation are often simpli-fied within a narrow frame oriented towards the negative impacts of …
The study reported that streams affected by coal mining had, on average, a one-third reduction in biodiversity and only half of the total organism abundance of unaffected streams. Invertebrate, fish, and salamander species richness (e.g., the number of different species living in the stream) declined by 32%, 39%, and 28%, respectively. …
The present paper attempts to reveal the baseline environmental quality and socioeconomic setting in and around such mining sites with special reference to the effects on the biodiversity, …
The wealth that mining creates gives the industry the opportunity to manage its impacts and have a positive effect on biodiversity.
Complex and controversial issues associated with mining and biodiversity conservation are often simpli-fied within a narrow frame oriented towards the negative impacts of mining at the site of extraction, rather than posed as a series of challenges for the conservation science community to embrace.
Mining has long been recognized as a threat to protected areas and biodiversity in general, both directly due to habitat loss and degradation, and indirectly through supporting industries and increased access to biodiversity rich areas as a result of mining operations. According to one analysis, mining currently influences more than 19 million ...
Abstract. Mining poses serious and highly specific threats to biodiversity. However, mining can also be a means for financing alternative livelihood paths that, over the long-term, may prevent biodiversity loss. Complex and controversial issues associated with mining and biodiversity conservation are often simplified within a narrow frame ...
Obtaining a clear understanding of where and how mining impacts ES and the methods used to show this is crucial for determining management approaches to overcome impacts. Here, we review the academic literature examining mining impacts to ES. We found only 60 papers assessed impacts to ES, with the majority focused on coal …
Deep-sea mining is still in the experimental stage, and the impacts on deep-sea ecosystems and the climate remain largely unknown, but existing information has led scientists to warn that biodiversity loss will be inevitable – and most likely irreversible [2]. In January 2024, Dutch research confirmed the risks for species living in the deep-sea [3].
The long-term and continuous mining of coal can have serious impact on the natural environment, including contamination of the soil, land subsidence, and deterioration of stream ecosystems.
Humanity impacts the planet's biodiversity in multiple ways, both deliberate and accidental. The biggest threat to biodiversity to date has been the way humans have reshaped natural habitats to make way for farmland, or to obtain natural resources, but as climate change worsens it will have a growing impact on ecosystems. The main direct …
Background Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to …
Biodiversity offsets have, therefore, increasingly been promoted as a mechanism to help achieve both the aims of development and biodiversity conservation. Accordingly, this mechanism is emerging as a key tool for multinational mining companies to demonstrate good environmental stewardship.
The term 'biodiversity,' while casually used in practice, is a complicated subject to measure, interpret, contextualize, and compare. Yet the possible advent of deep-sea mining in the mid-2020's compels us to compare potential impacts of biodiversity loss across ecologically distant realms, a formidable task. Supplying the world's green …
By incorporating these values, we not only reshape optimal mining patterns but also forge a path towards enhanced environmental conservation. To quantify the value of affected biodiversity and ecosystems, we employ a …
This paper will assess the mining industry in the Philippines, using the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This paper will also attempt to recommend actions to ...
Most mining-induced loss of biodiversity in the deep sea is likely to last forever on human timescales, given the very slow natural rates of recovery in affected ecosystems. It is incumbent on the ...
Complex and controversial issues associated with mining and biodiversity conservation are often simplified within a narrow frame oriented towards the negative impacts of mining at the site of ...
Amid a global infrastructure boom, there is increasing recognition of the ecological impacts of the extraction and consumption of construction minerals, mainly processed as …
A new WWF report, "Extracted Forests: Unearthing the role of mining-related deforestation as a driver of global deforestation", sheds light on how the impacts of mining, currently the fourth largest driver of deforestation, increases significantly, affecting up to 1/3 of the world's forest ecosystems, when indirect impacts are taken into account.
Coal is an important energy source, but its use affects regional air quality and global climate. This study finds that coal mining reduces the diversity and number of stream animals and that these ...
Mining and drilling have often been seen as having limited environmental impacts. It's often assumed that restoring ecosystems after fossil fuel extraction can ultimately return the ecosystem to ...
Mapping the global mining areas is increasingly important for quantifying pressures of mineral extraction on biodiversity 6, 7, 8, 9, land-use modelling 10, estimating the …
We illustrate how mining impacts biodiversity through diverse pathways and across spatial scales. We argue that traditional, site-based conservation approaches will have limited effect in preventing biodiversity loss against an increasing mining footprint, but opportunities to improve outcomes (e.g. through long-term strategic …
Through direct and indirect mining practices, mining can have an impact on the environment at local, regional, and international levels. The consequences can include soil erosion, sinkholes, biodiversity loss, and contamination of surface, ground, and freshwater resources by chemicals released during mining operations.
Many negative impacts can result from mining activities. Some examples include climate change, deforestation/ habitat destruction, pollution, soil erosion, human-wildlife conflict, and the loss of biodiversity. The following are some of these examples in greater detail and some notable examples.
The effect on macroinvertebrate is one of the hotspots in the research field of effects of dam construction on biodiversity. Most study found that dam construction caused the increases of biomass and the decreases of taxa richness in …
