The jungle is crisscrossed with miles upon miles of airstrips for transporting machinery in and gold out, and the rivers are dotted with hulking mining barges. Across the Amazon, drug runners have ...

The gang’s presence is being felt all over the forest — in gang ... wreckage of illegal gold mining. The practice accounts for only a fraction of Amazon deforestation, far less than ...

This is not the gold trade of mining companies listed on the ... It's not for everyone but visiting this part of the Amazon is special. These experiences, as well as the ecological functioning of the ...

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled ... Peru – Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a half-dozen Peruvian military vehicles are rumbling along a dirt path that cuts through dense ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues ...

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global ...

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