Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier

Mongabay
Jan 6, 2026, 5:15 pm90 pts
MITÚ, Colombia — Beneath the rising sun, people from nearby Indigenous communities navigate across the Vaupés River in traditional wooden canoes toward Mitú, a rapidly expanding town in the Colombian Amazon. The canoes are packed with fish, plucked from the river’s tea-colored waters hours before, and…

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