Over the past decade, mining has denuded 230 square miles (595 square
kilometers) of forest in the Madre de Dios region, poisoning the
critical watershed. A study released last year, led by the Carnegie
Institution for Science, found that 76.5 percent of people in the region
had mercury levels above acceptable limits. Illegal mining is the
second largest cause of deforestation in Peru, behind clear-cutting for
agricultural development, Environmental Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
said. “It is terrible for the nearly irremediable wounds it causes to
the forest,” he said.
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