For over 20 years, ACT has worked with indigenous groups in nearby Colombia to help them map their lands. This work put them in a unique position to help expose the negative consequences of small-scale gold mining.
In Suriname, ACT is tracking the deforestation and pollution stemming from these mining operations. ACT estimates that nearly 400,000 Surinamese, about 75 percent of the country’s population, live in areas affected by a toxic mining by-product called mercury effluent.
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