The Pope attacked industries threatening the existence of the rainforest including timber, gold and gas and said: "We must break with the historical paradigm that sees the Amazon as an inexhaustible larder for other countries without taking into account its inhabitants.”
The pontiff's visit raised the hopes of indigenous peoples who have demanded the Peruvian government grant them formal titles to 200,000sq km of land and clean up rivers poisoned with mercury from illegal gold mining.
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