New research shows
informal gold mining in Peru’s Amazon region has poisoned mainly the
indigenous people who get most of their protein from fish.
The Carnegie Institution for Science published Monday a study showing that Peru’s indigenous people living in the Madre de Dios region have the highest traces of mercury contamination among any other group.
About 76.5 percent of the people living in the region, both rural and urban areas, were found to have mercury levels more than five times the maximum acceptable levels and 2.3 times greater than those in non-indigenous communities, the report showed.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/10/323111/peru-gold-mining-poisons-natives-study/
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