In a ruling issued on Monday, the First Regional Federal Court of Brazil upheld the suspension of an environmental license for Belo Sun's massive gold mining project that would carve into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. If implemented, the project would be the largest open-pit gold mine in Brazilian history.

The ruling is the result of sustained efforts by civil society and institutional allies to prevent the mine and to seek redress for illegal acts committed in the course of its environmental licensing process. As this victory demonstrates, legal strategies are only part of the broader effort to resist industrial mining in the Amazon.

With support from Amazon Watch and other partners, local communities have been organizing and insisting on their right to say no to mining in their territories.

The court ruling is a crucial victory for civil society and Amazonian traditional communities at a time in which Belo Sun and other international corporations are taking aggressive steps to expand mining in Brazil. The co-optation of Brazilian institutions by the mining industry makes resistance difficult and dangerous, and earth defenders who speak out against it face threats and repression.

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