"We see men in military uniform going upriver, but we can't know who
they are," cautioned Ramon Garrido, an independent politician in Autana,
a town halfway back to Puerto Ayacucho. "We don't have any proof."
Deforestation
is a big concern, with the Venezuelan government's figures showing it
has increased to 1,100 square km annually in recent years, an area
roughly the size of Rio de Janeiro.
While that is much less than
the more than 5,800 square km that was cut down last year in Brazil,
Maduro's administration says it aims to plant some 20 million new trees
in deforested areas before the end of 2015.
Flying over the rain
forest in a small plane, the Amazonas governor, Guarulla, said he hoped
those efforts could, bit by bit, fill in the holes torn by the
prospectors.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=illegal-miners-infest-venezuelas-am
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