Mauritania: The Banc d’Arguin National Park, a rich biodiversity threatened by artisanal mining

 The workers use mercury, a material which combines with gold, and which makes it possible to identify tiny specks of the precious metal in large clumps of earth. However, almost all of the mercury is carried away by water that runs downstream to the national park.

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