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The court ordered the Colombian government to stop all work at the Mandé Norte mine until the company carried out studies on possible environmental impacts and made a new and appropriate consultation of the affected communities.
A precedent has been established to guarantee the independence of the environmental authorities with respect to the mining authorities when granting licenses for mining projects.
AIDA works to protect the Andean ecosystems, which are sources of water.
Colombia has from forests, to fragile environments, such as moors, or high altitude ecosystems that capture water from the fog and supply it to the lowlands.
It seeks to establish precedents for the creation of policies that protect fragile environments from large-scale mining.
High-altitude wetlands that supply drinking water to 2.2 million Colombians and help mitigate specific effects are planned to be built in the moorlands of Santurbán.
There are ethnic and rural communities that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods, but because of mining they could be affected.
The limits provide the basis for conservation measures, in particular the prevention of activities that cause damage.
The Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled that indigenous and tribal communities have the right to freely access information about the project and to express their prior consent for the construction of the mine
