While mining has traditionally had a smaller footprint than agriculture, its impacts on communities can be devastating.  Infrastructure projects throughout the tropics open up new areas to deforestation and habitat degradation.  Mighty Earth works to address the impacts of infrastructure and mining projects in select cases throughout the world.

We’re working to stop projects like the Batang Toru Dam which is being built right in the middle of the Tapanuli orangutan’s habitat in Indonesia – threatening the survival of the world’s most endangered species of great ape.