{"id":25690,"date":"2026-10-08T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=25690"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:16:39","slug":"illegal-mining-organized-crime-and-the-fight-to-protect-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/event\/feed\/illegal-mining-organized-crime-and-the-fight-to-protect-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Deeper: Illegal Mining, Organized Crime, and the Fight to Protect the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dplf.org\/eventos\/feed\/mineria-ilegal-crimen-organizado-y-la-lucha-para-proteger-el-amazonas\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Protecting the Amazon also means defending the people who call it home. This event will bring together Indigenous leaders and experts to examine the impact of illegal mining and organized crime in the Amazon Basin and the challenges of protecting the region.<\/p>\n<p>Date: <strong>October 20, 2026<\/strong><br \/>\nTime: <strong>12:00\u20131:30 p.m. EDT.<\/strong><br \/>\nFormat: <strong>Hybrid, via Zoom and in person at AUWCL<\/strong>, Yuma Building, Room Y403. (300 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016)<br \/>\nLanguages: <strong>English and Spanish<\/strong>, with simultaneous interpretation available to both online and in-person participants.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists:<br \/>\n\u2022 Claudia Martin, AUWCL<br \/>\n\u2022 Cristina Vollmer de Burelli, SOSOrinoco<br \/>\n\u2022 Silvana Baldovino, SPDA<br \/>\n\u2022 Mariana Rend\u00f3n, People in Need<br \/>\n\u2022 Walter Quertehuari, Reserva Comunitaria Amarakaeri<br \/>\n\u2022 Daniel Cerqueira, DPLF<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfoQzRUfFI2pOshB8-Z6wTB1PvdsrYab1mIl3gD_VoUQQtMLg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register here<\/a>. Registered participants will receive access instructions by email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leer en espa\u00f1ol.\u00a0 &nbsp; Protecting the Amazon also means defending the people who call it home. This event will bring together Indigenous leaders and experts to examine the impact of illegal mining and organized crime in the Amazon Basin and the challenges of protecting the region. Date: October 20, 2026 Time: 12:00\u20131:30 p.m. EDT. Format: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"mec_category":[804,806,807,809,813,816],"mec_speaker":[],"mec_tag":[],"class_list":["post-25690","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-america-del-sur","mec_category-bolivia","mec_category-brasil","mec_category-colombia","mec_category-peru","mec_category-venezuela"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/25690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/25690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25694,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/25690\/revisions\/25694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=25690"},{"taxonomy":"mec_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_speaker?post=25690"},{"taxonomy":"mec_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_tag?post=25690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}