In Peru, officials play a losing game of whack-a-mole with illegal miners

Mongabay
Jun 3, 2021, 6:48 am210 pts
Deforestation driven by illegal mining around Peru’s Pariamanu River has accelerated in the past six months, with forests one and a half times the size of London’s Hyde Park lost since 2017. A report released May 4 by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows that, between October 2020 and…

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