Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report

Mongabay
Jan 11, 2023, 10:00 am187 pts
Illegal gold mining is accelerating deforestation in one of Venezuela’s most threatened national parks, a new report from Amazon Conservation revealed. Satellite imagery analyzed by the NGO shows that thousands of excavators, bulldozers and other illegal mining equipment are clearing the rainforest in the…

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