Peru's Amazon: New Mining Trends and Deforestation
Gold mining has been a significant environmental challenge in Peru, with illegal operations causing deforestation and river pollution.
A recent project by Amazon Conservation's Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP) maps mining operations and their expansion, revealing new trends.
The project shows mining has spread to northern provinces, with miners adopting river-based extraction methods uncommon in other areas.
One of the first visualizations of Peru's mining problem on a national scale.
Author's summary: Peru's Amazon faces new mining threats.
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