Environmental crimes don’t stop at borders. Neither can the reporting

Mongabay
Aug 31, 2026, 11:53 am98 ptsTrending
High gold prices have fueled illegal mining across the Amazon. As Brazil tightened controls on the trade, criminal groups found another route through Venezuela, where it could be laundered and then exported overseas, according to a Mongabay investigation published last year. Documenting the trade required…

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