But environmentalists say Fujimori's proposal gives a free pass to miners who have already destroyed 100,000 hectares (247,105 acres) of rainforest and polluted Amazonian rivers with so much mercury that local fish are no longer safe to eat.
Despite the crackdown, miners continued to expand deeper into nature and indigenous reserves, and regularly threaten and attack park rangers, said Victor Hugo Macedo, an official in Madre de Dios with Peru's park system.
"What we don't want is this, what's happening in Madre de Dios," Kuczynski told Fujimori at a presidential debate as he held up an aerial photo of rainforest pocked with illegal mining pits. "That's going to happen in multiples if you follow through with what you say."
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