The Amazon also has 53,000 active mining leases, spanning more than a fifth of the river basin's land area. New roads for mining and fossil-fuel projects are opening it up like a flayed fish – and with that a Pandora's box of environmental problems, such as illegal deforestation and fires, poaching, illicit gold mining and rampant land speculation.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27149-rich-nations-are-laying-road-to-ecological-armageddon.html#.VQLM7454oxA
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