Alongside illegal fishing, the number one illegal activity in the Corcovado is gold mining. It erodes the creek beds and impacts wildlife. The miners use toxic chemicals like cyanide and mercury to separate the gold from the silt and start shooting the protected animals after the food they carried in, runs out.
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