Peru cracks down on illegal gold miners in Amazon jungle
An update to the Feb. 13, 2011, post about unregulated gold exploitation contaminating and destroying huge swaths of Peru’s mega-diverse southern Amazon jungle:
Puerto Maldonado
Klondike-style gold rush in Peru’s southern jungle threatens carbon offset deals
My friend Barbara Fraser, one of the leading environmental reporters in Peru, published a story today in The Daily Climate describing how accelerated gold exploitation is eating away at the jungle department of Madre de Dios like a cancer.