The push for a sustainable artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay
Sep 12, 2026, 4:54 am107 ptsTrending
MADRE DE DIOS, Peru — In Madre de Dios, in the Peruvian Amazon, thousands of people depend on gold mining, while the spread of mercury and deforestation are transforming the country’s most biodiverse tropical forest. In La Pampa, one of the region’s main gold mining hubs, a formalized artisanal mining…

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