When Peace Is Dangerous

Although the conflict has served as a fire wall against large-scale investment in Colombia’s Amazon, degradation and pollution are not unknown. Factions in the war have long funded their operations with small-scale gold mines, bleeding mercury into the land and water;wildcat logging has robbed the area of most of its cedar. But industrial megaprojects have mostly been limited to other parts of the country. Many of these projects are on indigenous land, their impacts carefully observed by the tribes of the southern rainforest.
http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/10/21/colombia-peace-farc-indigenous