Over the years, as a result of the uncontrolled activities of some of these foreign mining companies and local small-scale miners, land for food crops and for cash has been irreparably degraded.
Forest cover has been removed. Huge craters, posing a danger to human lives, have been left, with rain water filling them.
Cocoa and food farms have been destroyed; their owners threatened with death and forcibly deprived of their land.
Even more alarming, rivers and streams that provide the source of drinking water have either dried up as a result of these mining activities, or they have been irrespectively polluted and poisoned with mercury and cyanide.
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