The impacts of the mining activities have been disastrous for us; we are not the same communities as 10 years ago. We have experienced many crop failures; mercury causes disastrous problems in our community. In particular as farmers we experience the full impact… We do not use the waters from the river … the fish are no longer edible due to the mercury. People who eat the fish get stomach pain and diarrhoea’.
http://latinamericandiaries.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2016/10/31/the-devastating-environmental-and-social-impact-of-gold-mining-in-choco-colombia/
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