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Small Illicit Gold Mines Devour Peruvian Amazon Rainforest

2013-10-29 00:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: The area covered by gold mining in the biologically rich Madre De Dios region in the Peruvian Amazon has quadrupled in the years from 1999 to 2012, finds new research published online today. For the first time, researchers have been able to map the true extent of gold mining by combining information from field surveys with airborne mapping and high-resolution satellite monitoring. The Carnegie Airborne Observatory flies over the Madre De Dios region of Peru.(Photo courtesy Greg Asner, Carnegie...

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