Now it is a charred wreck, nothing but a blackened ghost town, after police torched the squatter community in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, one of hundreds of wildcatter sites responsible for destroying thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.
The settlement, La Pampa, is the latest to be targeted by a government task force set up to stem the illegal trade which is blamed for polluting the environment and spreading mercury poisoning.
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