Peru's Amazon: New Mining Trends and Deforestation
Gold mining has been a major environmental challenge in Peru, with illegal operations causing deforestation and polluting rivers with chemicals.
The industry continues to grow, with miners expanding into new areas and adopting different methods, including river-based extraction.
A recent project by Amazon Conservation's Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP) maps mining operations and their expansion, showing the spread of mining into northern provinces.
The project is one of the first visualizations of Peru's mining problem on a national scale.
Author's summary: Peru's Amazon faces new mining trends and deforestation threats.