
The Ecologists and the Mine
Mining giant Rio Tinto made a high-profile pledge to improve the ecology of its ilmenite sites in Madagascar in cooperation with conservation scientists. Then its bottom line began to suffer...
Rowan Moore Gerety is a reporter and radio producer in New York City and author of Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique (The New Press, 2018). His reporting trip for this story was paid for with a grant from Mongabay. Credit: Nick Higgins
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