Peru's illegal gold mines are devastating the Amazon rain forest
Destructive cases of illegal mining across the world. In South America, the $2.4 billion illegal gold mining industry has been destroying the Amazon and costing dozens of lives. In Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, illegal gold mining operations by private companies have devastated local communities.
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Attempts to crack down on illegal mining in Roraima state face fierce local resistance, despite the fact all mining in the state is illegal. Mining has long been a fixture in the region and deeply ingrained in its history. In downtown Boa Vista, there is a seven-meter statue adorned with the names of prominent past miners. The monument stands.
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Bolsonaro has pushed a bill to Congress that had been on hold since 2007 and would eliminate illegal mining by simply legalizing it among other changes in indigenous land rights. Congress is.
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Welkom, once an economic engine of the apartheid state, emerged as an early—and especially dire—hot spot for illegal mining. Since 2007, officials in the Free State province, where Welkom is.
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An explosion of illegal mining in this vast swath of the Amazon has created a humanitarian crisis for the Yanomami people, cutting their food supplies, spreading malaria and, in some cases.
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Researchers identified 2,312 illegal mining sites in six nations, and highlighted their toxic effects. Activists fear that Brazil's new president will encourage even more mining.
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The illegal mining on Yanomami land near Brazil's border with Venezuela is a window into what's playing out across the Amazon rainforest, which covers about 60 percent of the overall country.
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Illegal gold mining devastates the environment, causing deforestation, biodiversity and habitat loss as well as water, air and soil pollution through the release of toxic chemicals. Local communities also suffer through forced population displacements, corruption, human rights violations and health issues associated with illegal mining.
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An illegal mining operation using a heavy mechanical digger on a riverbank in Ecuador. Photograph: Nicolas Mainville/Amazon Frontlines. In the absence of any state enforcement, the A'i Cofán of.
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7 Furthermore, illegal mining of precious metals is often accompanied by serious human rights abuses 8 and it often has severe environmental impacts, including through deforestation, land degradation and pollution. Several economic crimes can be linked to illegal mining and trafficking in precious metals; for instance, forging licenses,
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Illegal mining extends far beyond the Arco Minero. The Arco Minero quickly became a hub for illegal mining, where armed non-state actors and local gangs compete for control of key mining operations. The Maduro regime has used state enterprises and security forces to legitimize otherwise criminal mineral extraction, collaborating with criminal.
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Illegal mining can be a subsistence activity, as is the case with artisanal mining, or it can belong to large-scale organized crime, [2] spearheaded by illegal mining syndicates. [3] [4] On an international level, approximately 80 percent of small-scale mining operations can be categorized as illegal. [5]
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The humanitarian disaster in this forest region, however, was not caused by crop failure or war, but by illegal mining and genocidal neglect by the state. An investigation by our Amazon-based news platform Sumaúma found that 570 infants under the age of five died of preventable diseases in the past four years, a 29 percent increase over the.
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In December 2021, a Greenpeace Brazil survey showed that illegal mining within the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands, in the Brazilian state of Pará, had destroyed 632 kilometers of rivers in just five years. In early 2022, miners dumped more than 7 million tons of tailings — a mining by-product, often toxic — into the Tapajós.
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Illegal mining operations in Brazil such as the one shown here in the Yanomami Indigenous reserve pollute waterways and soil, and destroy the rainforest. Credit: João Laet/Guardian/eyevine
Illegal gold miners stalk Brazilian Amazon and authorities look away
Illegal mining and trafficking in precious metals negatively impact peace, stability, security, development, governance, the rule of law, the environment and the economy. Furthermore, illegal mining of precious metals is often accompanied by serious human rights abuses and it can have severe environmental impacts, including through.