The rivers in Peru’s southeastern Amazon area are being
poisoned by toxic levels of mercury coming from illegal gold miners.
And the worst is that, according to a new study made by the Carnegie
Amazon Mercury Project, this leakage is posing serious health risks to
the local children.
The report says that native communities are registering levels of mercury almost five times higher
than what is considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO). On
the other hand, people in urban areas had double the safe limit.
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