The gold rush has introduced mercury contamination to rivers and the ecosystem, as well as risks to the health of indigenous people living in the Madidi, one of Bolivia’s largest protected areas, with an extension of 1.8 million hectares, in the northwest is located in country. Chinese and Colombian companies, as well as Bolivian mining cooperatives, a sector that exploits gold with dredges and mercury, both legally and illegally, under the current executive as well as the government of former President Evo Morales.
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