Bursting the ground open with the help of powerful engines, illegal gold miners are responsible for the destruction of 1330km of waterways. The mercury used to treat the gold is thrown away into nature and then adds up to the mercury naturally present in the ground.
This metal can be found all along the food chain: stocked by plants and ingested by fishes, it contaminates those living alongside the river.
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