There’s a mining concession that’s four times bigger than Paris?! 😵 On Halmahera Island, Indonesia, nickel mining is booming…on the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people’s land. The nickel is destined to go into the batteries of electric cars, which are supposedly “green” to help save the planet, but are in fact destroying the Indigenous Hongana Manyawa people and their rainforest. Any invasion of the Hongana Manyawa’s territory risks putting the lives of the Indigenous people in danger. Hongana M

77K views · 507 reactions | ⛏️FLASHBACK FRIDAY Check out amazing footage from the ABC archives filmed in 1970 when the Kambalda nickel boom was still in its infancy. Watch to the end for an interview with a Western Mining executive: “I’d be very surprised if Kambalda wasn’t a very flourishing town in 50 years and probably much longer than that.” | ABC Goldfields-Esperance | Facebook