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The Devastating Costs of the Amazon Gold Rush. Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru’s Amazon basin
Highlights. Brazil’s rapidly growing ASGM sector is concentrated in the Amazon, particularly the Tapajós River Basin, which represents the largest ASGM district in the world. Native communities bear much of the burden for illegal ASGM, with 10,245 hectares lost over three indigenous territories from 2017-2019.
11 mar 2022 · In the Ecuadoran Amazon, a boom in legal and illegal gold mining has sparked Indigenous land rights conflicts and water contamination in the Anzu and Jatunyacu rivers.
28 gru 2023 · The rising value of gold worldwide has amplified illegal mining in the Amazon, where liquid mercury is being dumped in the Amazon River, and causing scientists to warn that Indigenous...
2 sty 2024 · Along the left bank of the Cenepa River in the Peruvian Amazon, motors roar from underneath plastic roofs on dredging rafts. Enormous suction tubes penetrate the riverbed from these rafts.
Record high gold prices over the past decade have triggered a massive gold rush across the country and the Amazon at large, resulting in the destruction of thousands of hectares of rainforests and the contamination of major rivers with highly toxic materials.
