Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area

Mongabay
Oct 17, 2019, 6:52 pm280 pts
When inspectors from Peru’s Technical Administration for Forestry and Wildlife (ATFFS) in Puerto Inca Province received a complaint about the presence of miners in the buffer zone around the El Sira Communal Reserve, they sent up a drone that captured images of a forest devastated by gold mining. The images…

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