“You cut down all the trees, in the process kill all the animals, destroy the soils … then put a very toxic substance, which is mercury, into the rivers and lakes at the rate of 185 tonnes per year. Recovery of a place with that much damage is going to take a lot longer [than normal],” he said, noting that indigenous communities are disproportionately impacted by mercury contamination.
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