Goldminers Overrun Amazon Indigenous Lands as COVID-19 Surges
Jenny Gonzales – Miners are emboldened by the inflammatory anti-indigenous and anti-environmental rhetoric of the Jair Bolsonaro administration.
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Gold Mining Threatens Indigenous Forests in the Brazilian Amazon
John C. Cannon – Mining is one of the most serious threats facing the Amazon and the indigenous people who inhabit it.
Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area
Morgan Erickson-Davis – A recent inspection found a large area of forest has been cleared by gold mining in Puerto Inca Province in Peru.
Precious Metals vs. Precious Life: Destruction of the Amazon
Sergey Baranov – The Amazon is home to countless species of plants, many of which have incredible curative properties which know no equal in the world.
The Price of Gold: Winners and Losers in Latin America’s Mining Industry
Meghan Walsh, Mongabay Waking Times On a Friday afternoon in June, the Plaza de Armas in Cajamarca is pulsing with life. It’s winter here, and although thick white clouds hover low in the distance, the sun in this northern Peruvian city is warm. Couples sit on benches facing one another. Kids run in the grass …
The Quicksilver Demon: Rogue Gold-Mining is the World’s Largest Source of Mercury Pollution
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa, Mongabay Waking Times In 1956, in the quiet seaside town of Minamata on the southwestern coast of Japan’s Kyushu Island, cats began to behave very strangely. They convulsed, displayed excessive salivation, and gradually lost the ability to walk. Then, dead birds began to fall out of the sky. Shellfish opened and decomposed. …
Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest Surges 400%
Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay Waking Times The extent of gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has surged 400 percent since 1999 due to rocketing gold prices, wreaking havoc on forests and devastating local rivers, finds a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The assessment, led by Greg Asner of the Carnegie …