Illegal gold mining has become a major threat to the Corcovado National Park, in the South Pacific Costa Rica, the largest primary forest biodiversity of Costa Rica, home to the 3% of the world’s species, reported the local press.
An investigation by the newspaper La Nacion revealed that more than 250 people take artisanal gold on the banks of the rivers within the National Park of 45,700 hectares.
These improvised miners dig tunnels up to 40 meters in length or destroy mountainsides in a work called “terracing” and with destroying one of the richest places in flora and fauna worldwide.
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