Illegal gold mining pushes deeper into protected Peruvian reserve

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By <a class="author-link"…Feb 9, 2016, 8:29 am68 pts
Illegal gold mining is ravaging vast swaths of Peruvian Amazon. In November 2015, a report released by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) showed that illegal gold mining operations had entered Peru's Tambopata National Reserve, an Important Bird Area recognized by Birdlife International, and…

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