It got worse: towards the end of our trip, back on the Madre de Dios, we passed a number of people panning for gold and polluting the river with mercury. On our last day, on the road to Puerto Maldonado, we encountered hellfire scenes of devastation: great swathes of burnt-out land in which the trees had been reduced to stumps and the blight of open-cast mining hung in the air.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/southamerica/peru/10881987/Ecotourism-exploring-deepest-darkest-Peru.html
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