Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Mongabay
Dec 30, 2019, 7:24 pm286 pts
The damage only became clear once the rain stopped and the clouds parted over Altamira National Forest in northern Brazil. Instead of dense jungle, large patches of bare land now flanked the banks of the rivers snaking through this protected stretch of the Amazon rainforest. “When we got a clean satellite…

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