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Extent of Peruvian Amazon lost to illegal goldmines mapped first time
2013-10-29 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The area affected by illegal gold mining in Peru's south-eastern Amazon region increased by 400% from 1999 to 2012, according to researchers using state-of-the-art mapping technology. Using airborne mapping and high-satellite monitoring, researchers led by the Carnegie Institution for Science also showed that the rate of forest loss in Madre de Dios has tripled since the 2008 global economic crisis, when the international price of gold began to rise to new highs. Until this study, thousands...
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