Damage to Amazon worse than reported: 14-year study of Peru gold mining

Field surveys, airborne mapping, and high resolution satellite imaging from 1999 to 2012 by the Carnegie Institution for Science and the Peruvian ministry of environment reveal damage to Peru's Amazon – mostly from illegal gold mining – far more extensive than what has been reported to date.
The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arrives one month after footage from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory was released, showing vast swaths of destroyed rainforest in Peru's Madre de Dios region.
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