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☆ Peru's deadly gold mine attack highlights growing security risk, costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Marco Aquino | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The attack has highlighted a growing risk for miners in the Andean nation, the world's no. "Security is now one of the main costs," Poderosa corporate affairs manager Pablo de la Flor told Reuters after the attack. Thousands of trucks of illegal gold were taken out, it said. "There is a black market for minerals," said Gustavo Ramirez, who studies illegal mining for SNMPE. Illegal miners are estimated to produce around another 30 tons.

Persons: Cristobal Bouroncle, Rights LIMA, Pablo de la Flor, De la Flor, Saturday's, la Flor, Poderosa, Gustavo Ramirez, Marco Aquino, Alexander Villegas, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Rights, Reuters, National Society of Mining, Petroleum, Energy, Peru's Ministry of Energy, Mining, Ministry of Energy, Mines, Thomson Locations: Madre de Dios , Peru, Peru, Pataz, India, Switzerland, Canada, Bolivia

Their data showed mercury contamination from informal gold mining making its way into the biodiversity hotspot's mammals — from rodents to ocelots to titi monkeys. Leaders from the eight countries around the Amazon meeting in Brazil next week will discuss how to end illegal gold mining. While the scientists began testing for mercury at Los Amigos in 2021, some of the samples were gathered as early as 2018. During Reuters' visit to Los Amigos, scientists caught rodents in metal traps baited with peanut butter and snagged birds and a bat in mist nets floating through the forest. In 2021, mining arrived on Los Amigos' doorstep.

Persons: Conservación Amazônica, Mrinalini Erkenswick, Erkenswick Watsa, biogeochemist Jacqueline Gerson, there's, it's, Gideon Erkenswick, Jorge Luis Mendoza Silva, Caroline Moore, Moore, Chris Sayers, Jake Spring, Gloria Dickie, Marco Aquino, Oliver Griffin, Katy Daigle, Suzanne Goldenberg Organizations: Los, Biological, Amigos, Reuters, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Projects International, Los Amigos, University of Colorado, REUTERS, Gold Council, USAID, Peruvian, Nature Communications, San Diego Zoo Wildlife, University of California, Thomson Locations: Peru, Peruvian, Peru's, de Dios, Madre de Dios, Brazil, Colombia, California, University of Colorado Boulder, Los Amigos, Dios, Latin America, Congo, Indonesia, University of California Los Angeles, London, Lima, Bogota

☆ Weekend podcast: Gold mining's impact on Amazon animals and actors talk Hollywood at the bar
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Travel with reporter Jake Spring to Los Amigos Biological station in the Amazon rainforest of Peru's Madre de Dios region. There, researchers have found mercury contamination from gold mining is threatening scores of species. Some 46,000 miners search for gold in the country's epicenter of small-scale mining. Plus we visit a Hollywood watering hole called Residuals Tavern to chat with working class actors struggling with the change to their industry . Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices.

Persons: Jake Spring Organizations: Apple, Google, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Peru's, de Dios, Hollywood

PLANCHÓN, Peru—More than a decade ago, Leonardo Racua was one of the first people in Peru to agree to help preserve the Amazon rainforest in exchange for cash from the sale of carbon credits. He built a thatched-roof home in the country’s southern Madre de Dios state and harvested Brazil nuts that fall from massive trees deep in the jungle. It wasn’t until last year that Mr. Racua received an $8,000 payment, his first cash from the sale of carbon credits.

☆ (FOTO) NASA a publicat o fotografie în care Amazonia Peruviană strălucește ca aurul
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-11 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

NASA a publicat o fotografie în care Amazonia Peruviană strălucește ca aurul. Imaginea a fost surprinsă de un astronaut aflat pe Stația Spațială Internațională, la data de 24 decembrie 2020, informează CNN. Poza respectivă prezintă râul Inambari și o serie de gropi înconjurate de zone defrișate. Ceea ce pare a fi aur pur reprezintă, în realitate, acumulări de noroi toxic. Provincia Madre de Dios din Peru, arătată în această imagine, este casa celei mai importante industrii independente de minerit a aurului de pe Terra.

Persons: CNN . Organizations: NASA, Stația Spațială Internațională, CNN, Dios Locations: Peru

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