New: UK politicians are calling for tough action against the British Virgin Islands for failing to share company ownership data. If the BVI opens up its books, the real owners of the "shadow companies" destroying Indonesian rainforest could be revealed. thegeckoproject.org/articles/rai...

Rainforest-destroying shadow companies in spotlight as tax havens pressured on corporate transparency

UK overseas territories are being criticised for missing a deadline to open up company ownership data

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“We are on the edge of a precipice. If we continue in the same way we’re going to fall into that precipice.” A new film by the @thegeckoproject.org (coming soon) about the destruction of Bolivia's forests. Last year, fires burned 10 million hectares. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/bolivia-bu...

Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American ecocide

A new documentary film by the Gecko Project. Coming soon.

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Our partners at @thegeckoproject.org released a YouTube video on our investigation into a major supplier to the electric vehicle battery industry: youtu.be/QGOPi2AmYBc?... The company knew for over a decade that its nickel operations in Indonesia were polluting water with a carcinogenic chemical

Poisoned Water, Clean Cars: A Nickel Titan’s Toxic Secret

YouTube video by The Gecko Project

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NEW: A major supplier to the global electric vehicle battery industry knew that its Indonesian nickel operations were polluting water with a carcinogenic chemical — and didn’t disclose it. 👇Here’s a quick overview of our findings with @thegeckoproject.org , Deutsche Welle and @theguardian.com

BREAKING: A major nickel firm supplying EV battery makers—who supply car giants like Tesla, Toyota & BMW—has polluted Indonesian water sources for years with chromium-6, a toxic chemical, leaked documents reveal. 👇Read full findings

Clean Cars, Poisoned Water: A Nickel Titan's Toxic Secret

Leaked documents reveal that a nickel powerhouse at the heart of the EV industry was aware of toxic pollution for more than a decade—and kept mining

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Officially, one of the best things on the internet. Dust Money, the @thegeckoproject.org / @newlinesmag.bsky.social collaboration is an honoree in multimedia storytelling in this year's Webbys. newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...

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Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...

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New video: The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6m hectares of land in Papua into rice and sugar cane plantations. Thousands of troops have been sent to support President Prabowo’s signature policy. We've investigated their role: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVj...

Militarised deforestation in Papua: how Indonesia is converting indigenous forest into farms

YouTube video by The Gecko Project

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Indonesia’s Supreme Court has upheld a decision to block further expansion of the Tanah Merah oil palm project, protecting more than 65,000 ha of forest in Papua from clearance.👏 The ruling was influenced by testimonies from the Indigenous Awyu, for whom the forest is their lifeline. bit.ly/43C5HeQ

Indonesian court blocks palm oil expansion, but leaves Indigenous land rights in limbo

JAKARTA — The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua. In its ...

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NEW: The Indonesian government is using thousands of soldiers to force through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests in Merauke, Papua. We investigated how this is affecting Papuans by interviewing people whose land has been targeted and analysing soldiers' TikTok posts.

Fear and Raiders in Papua

How thousands of Indonesian soldiers are forcing through a vast agricultural project in indigenous lands and forests

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Thanks to @tbij.bsky.social for highlighting our work: "Investigative journalists work hard to follow the money...but dark money structures [make] it difficult to break through. "That’s why the work of The Gecko Project on its shadow companies and deforestation investigation is so impressive."

Shining a light on dark money

Shadow companies can hide all kinds of wrongdoing – until they're exposed

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New film from our recent investigation: We travelled 2,000km through Indonesia’s nickel frontiers investigating how a green, battery-powered future is being achieved through increasingly authoritarian means. Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social.

The dark side of Indonesia’s green metals obsession | Dust Money

YouTube video by The Gecko Project

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When @thegeckoproject.org publishes an investigative piece—I pay attention! (the images in this piece on the nickel rush in Sulawesi are as eloquent as the report 💔)

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Devastating longread from @thegeckoproject.org & @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the landscapes & communities of Sulawesi entrained in rapacious forest-stripping, village-gobbling, sea-smothering nickel extraction, pollution from coal-fired smelters, dangerous industry conditions & social conflict

Devastating longread from @thegeckoproject.org & @newlinesmag.bsky.social on the landscapes & communities of Sulawesi entrained in rapacious forest-stripping, village-gobbling, sea-smothering nickel extraction, pollution from coal-fired smelters, dangerous industry conditions & social conflict

Dust Money

Indonesia is in the middle of a massive rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. Years into the boom, the costs of its obsession with the mineral are mounting.

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Indonesia is the beating heart of nickel production for the world’s green transition. But a groundbreaking multimedia investigation by @newlinesmag.bsky.social & @thegeckoproject.org reveals the catastrophic environmental and human toll of the lucrative industry. 🔎 newlinesmag.com/reportage/du...

Dust Money

Indonesia is in the middle of a rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. The country’s government wants to dominate the market, making nickel a national project. Years into the boo...

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NEW: Our 2,000km roadtrip through hidden parts of the nickel supply chain found that Indonesia's government has rewritten environmental laws, militarised the industry and criminalised opposition to mining. Published with @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Dust Money

Indonesia is in the middle of a massive rush for nickel, a metal that is vital to the green economy. Years into the boom, the costs of its obsession with the mineral are mounting.

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Listen to our conversation with @landclimate.bsky.social about our investigation (with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social's Rainforest Investigations Network) into the business interests of Indonesia's new president.

Land and Climate Review@landclimate.bsky.social · 2y ago

Margareth Aritonang from @thegeckoproject.org tells @alimacewen.bsky.social about Prabowo Subianto's links to “coal mining, timber plantations, fishing and palm oil," in our most recent episode of the Land and Climate Podcast. Click to listen and to access the report. www.landclimate.org/...

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Pete Guest@peterguest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Earlier this year, I joined a team from @thegeckoproject.org on a 2,000km road trip through Indonesia’s nickel country. The story, publishing next week, shows the cost of the country’s rush to break into the EV supply chain— measured in broken landscapes and people squeezed to the margins.

Indonesia’s new president brands himself as a successful businessman, with a $130m fortune and a vast landbank. But is he really so successful? We delved into the companies linked to him to find out. Read our investigation with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social: thegeckoproject.org/articles/pre...

The President's new clothes

Unravelling the mystery of Prabowo Subianto’s business interests

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