Mining Is Increasingly Pushing into Critical Rainforests and Protected Areas

 Illegal gold mining, dubbed by The Washington Post as "the scourge of the Amazon," strips the land of trees and pollutes rivers with mercury, a substance used in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). In fact, ASGM is the largest source of mercury pollution not only in the Amazon, but in the world, impacting people, plants and animals everywhere.

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