A new report published by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organization, Conservación Amazónica, found that 140,000 hectares of land in the Peruvian Amazon have been cleared for illegal gold mining. The illegal miners use dredges, “floating machines that chew up and spit out riverbeds—leaving…
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