Widespread illegal mining threatens the survival of those who depend on the land for their sustenance. Highly toxic compounds that are necessary for gold extraction such, as mercury and cyanide, poison everything around it, contaminating the lands where Indigenous peoples plant their food and the rivers where they fish
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