Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay
Apr 8, 2020, 11:07 am233 pts
Illegal gold mining led to deforestation of thousands of hectares of forests inside indigenous reserves in the Brazilian Amazon in 2019, according to new satellite image analysis published April 8 by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). Mongabay had exclusive access to the report prior to its…

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