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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Greta Thunberg’s charity funds Sami fight against British mining company

A Sami man with raindeer.
The proposed mine in Swedish Sápmi has become a symbol of what has been condemned as disregard by big business and government for the protected status of Sami culture. Photograph: Carl-Johan Utsi/The Guardian

The charity founded in Greta Thunberg’s name has donated £158,000 to cover the legal costs of Indigenous people in Sweden’s Arctic north as they battle a British mining company over plans for an iron-ore mine on reindeer-herding lands.

Beowulf Mining, which has its headquarters in the City of London, was given approval in March by the Swedish government for excavation on an area used by the Sami community.

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