A decade of illegal gold mining has transformed a formally lush area in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon into a wasteland. In February 2019, the president of the region of Madre de Dios (where most of the destructive mining takes place) declared a state of emergency...
For nearly two decades, gold miners have illegally ravaged the Amazon rainforest in Peru’s Tambopata region. The miners move swiftly through the pristine jungle, turning it into treeless, toxic wasteland that could take 500 years to recover. Sadly, there’s no...
