Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

Mongabay
Mar 19, 2020, 10:05 am233 pts
More than a decade of illegal gold mining around the upstart town of La Pampa in the Peruvian Amazon has tainted local water supplies, razed forests adjacent to a world-class wildlife preserve and fostered illegal child labor and human trafficking. The region has become “what is essentially the poster child…

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