Growing Peruvian mining: legal and illegal mining against global environment

In Madre de Dios, clandestine mines have boomed since the Great Recession of 2008. Recently, the Carnegie Institution for Science mapped the zone with airborne mapping and high-resolution satellite monitoring and discovered that the forest loss has tripled from 2,166 hectares per year before 2008 to 6,145 hectares each year. That's roughly the size of half Orlando'sWalt Disney World!
But massive deforestation is not the only problem in the zone. Mining, big or small, legal or illegal, also brings poisoned water (affecting the entire food chain, including the food ingested by people), environmental degradation, soil erosion, destruction of natural habitats for wild animals, mercury poisoning (consequence of poisoned water and fish - such as the typical species in the zone: the mota and doncella- which contain unhealthy mercury levels) and human-rights abuses.
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