Relentless artisan gold miners continue to challenge Minamata Agreement

 There are reports that small-scale illegal gold miners in a region in Peru known as Madre de Dios, have transformed lush Amazonian forest into “a desert pock-marked with polluted ponds that are leaking into the human food chain.” Peru is Latin America’s largest gold producer.

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