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Save Tây Nguyên - Sa NO to Bauxite Mining in the central highlands

Tây Nguyên is a central highlands of Viet Nam where there is massive growth of coffees, tea and many other crops that is export quality eg: Starbuck sources its coffee from this region.

Recent approval by the Vietnamese goverment to mine Bauxite in VN will destroy these lands, for every 4 tons of bauxite extracted, only 1 ton of it can be made into Alumina, the rest is a toxic waste that will stop any plants from growing. India is the most recent example of the result of Bauxite mining.

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