A global review of the threats of mining on mid-sized and large mammals

Martins-Oliveira, Angele Tatiane; Zanin, Marina; Canale, Gustavo Rodrigues; Costa, Cristiano A. da; Eisenlohr, Pedro V.; Melo, Fabiano Rodrigues de

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126025

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“…The majority of this diverse biodiversity is located in national parks and forest reserves. The high rate of habitat loss in these parks is considered the main driver of the loss of wildlife in SSA [19][20][21]. These land uses not only fragment the landscape, as indicated by the landscape analysis, but also destroy sensitive habitats and inhibit the natural movements of animals [97].…”

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“…There are about 8568 protected areas in Africa, constituting 14.18% of its total land [18]. Unfortunately, in many of these protected areas, there have not been sufficient detailed analyses to provide the crucial information needed to inform management decisions even though rapid changes resulting from, especially anthropogenic activities, is the leading cause of the loss of biodiversity on the continent [19][20][21].…”

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Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

2022

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Protected areas (PAs) transform over time due to natural and anthropogenic processes, resulting in the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. As current and projected climatic trends are poised to pressurize the sustainability of PAs, analyses of the existing perturbations are crucial for providing valuable insights that will facilitate conservation management. In this study, land cover change, landscape characteristics, and spatiotemporal patterns of the vegetation intensity in the Kasungu National Park (area = 2445.10 km2) in Malawi were assessed using Landsat data (1997, 2008 and 2018) in a Fuzzy K-Means unsupervised classification. The findings reveal that a 21.12% forest cover loss occurred from 1997 to 2018: an average annual loss of 1.09%. Transition analyses of the land cover changes revealed that forest to shrubs conversion was the main form of land cover transition, while conversions from shrubs (3.51%) and bare land (3.48%) to forest over the two decades were comparatively lower, signifying a very low rate of forest regeneration. The remaining forest cover in the park was aggregated in a small land area with dissimilar landscape characteristics. Vegetation intensity and vigor were lower mainly in the eastern part of the park in 2018. The findings have implications for conservation management in the context of climate change and the growing demand for ecosystem services in forest-dependent localities.

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Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

2022

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“…Ultimately, the development of mining activities and the construction of associated infrastructure led to habitat loss and fragmentation of forest-dependent species. Some human activities, such as forest suppression, may significantly reduce living populations of wild forest mammals, leading to the extinction of local species [13]. Robeck and Richardson found that mine wastewater affected by AMD destroys aquatic life in water that discharged sewage [14].…”

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Hazards Caused by Mining Activities and Corresponding Treatment Technologies

Kong¹,

Xiong²

2022

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Mining operation brings great economic benefits to human society and seriously threatens the health of the ecological environment. It is urgent to restore the ecosystem and the treatment of the ecological environment in the mining area. Most academic articles only focus on researching a specific mine area, and the solutions proposed are single and not universal, which is difficult to use for reference by other mine restoration work. Therefore, based on a broader perspective, this paper comprehensively and systematically summarizes the public ecological environment problems and treatment methods of different mining operations. The main work is as follows: (1) through the comparative analysis of many mining academic articles, the main environmental hazards are summarized. This paper mainly introduces the threat of mining to the human living environment from the aspects of water source, soil, and biology. (2) Referring to different mining area restoration practices and mining waste treatment cases, the author combined with the main hazardous substances produced by mining and summarized the effective treatment methods and intervention means. This paper summarizes the methods to reduce Mining Hazards in detail from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, biology, and government. These summary contents have extremely important guiding significance for the restoration of the ecological environment of the mining area and the reuse of waste mining resources to maintain the orderly circulation of the ecological environment and realize the sustainable development of the mining area.

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“…In addition, mining companies that conduct Environmental Impact Assessments typically practice data embargoes that prohibit use of the data by second or third parties (see also 2022 Nature Benchmarks). As a result, there are few published studies that scientifically assess the impacts of mining on wildlife populations ( 12 ).…”

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Threat of mining to African great apes

Junker,

Quoss,

Valdez

et al. 2024

Sci. Adv.

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The rapid growth of clean energy technologies is driving a rising demand for critical minerals. In 2022 at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), seven major economies formed an alliance to enhance the sustainability of mining these essential decarbonization minerals. However, there is a scarcity of studies assessing the threat of mining to global biodiversity. By integrating a global mining dataset with great ape density distribution, we estimated the number of African great apes that spatially coincided with industrial mining projects. We show that up to one-third of Africa’s great ape population faces mining-related risks. In West Africa in particular, numerous mining areas overlap with fragmented ape habitats, often in high-density ape regions. For 97% of mining areas, no ape survey data are available, underscoring the importance of increased accessibility to environmental data within the mining sector to facilitate research into the complex interactions between mining, climate, biodiversity, and sustainability.

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A global review of the threats of mining on mid-sized and large mammals

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

Spatial and Temporal Change of Land Cover in Protected Areas in Malawi: Implications for Conservation Management

Hazards Caused by Mining Activities and Corresponding Treatment Technologies

Threat of mining to African great apes

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