Miners, drug traffickers and loggers: Is Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park on the verge of collapse?

 Generally, the phrase “illegal gold mining” rings alarm bells for environmentalists in Latin America, where numerous countries have seen pollutants like mercury and the use of heavy machinery, like backhoe diggers and bulldozers, rapidly destroy rainforests and contaminate rivers.

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