Peru faces a series of environmental problems in Amazonia, including illegal logging, but the meeting comes at a time when the country has taken the first serious steps in over two decades to combat disastrous deterioration of the Amazon rainforest in the Madre de Dios region in southern Peru, the result of thousands of illegal and informal miners dredging for gold in several major Amazon tributaries, encroaching on national park buffer zones, laying waste to vast areas of land and poisoning the rivers in the separating process.
http://www.peruviantimes.com/20/south-american-environment-ministers-meet-on-amazon-environment/15305/
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