BASF Withdrawal From Indonesia Nickel Mine a Partial Victory For Tribe

But extraction for EV batteries still threatens one of the world’s last uncontacted peoples

Photo from Survival International

The recent withdrawal from a US$2.6 billion nickel mining operation on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island by the German chemical giant BASF due to the presence of uncontacted tribes and the threat of widespread deforestation is an almost unprecedented victory by environmentalists, although the mine will go forward anyhow under…