Gold mines illegal

The rainforest of Peru is in danger. Threatened every day by the extension of the gold mines illegal, and most importantly, at a rate greater than twice as prudently esteemed experts. To establish with the evidence of a 3D model is a report of the U.S. Carnegie Institution for Science relaunched by the British newspaper The Independent Every year, 15,810 acres (nearly 6400 acres) of rainforest, located in the region called Madre de Dios, which houses part of the Peruvian Amazon, as well as various indigenous reserves and natural habitats, and recently booming destination for eco-tourism, have literally disappeared from the start of the global economic crisis in 2008. Improved techniques of analysis has in fact allowed the researchers to compute also the micro-mining camps sprung up in recent years, which constitute up to 51% of the illegal excavation areas surveyed.


The increase in the intensity of the threat to the forest coincided with the global crisis, as the international price of gold has shot up, making it harder ore a financial safe haven. Hence the arrival in these lands, near the Bolivian border, thousands of peruvianiche, in search of the precious metal, have illegally dredged riverbeds and dug pits in the trees. Simple farmers impoverished or desperate workers, but also real entrepreneurs enriched by the gold rush, which now employ hundreds of miners in the area, work with shovels and even boats for the dredging of waterways, with yet little investigated on the Amazon River and the risk that the tons dimercury used to extract gold from getting into the groundwater and accumulate in fish, they eat many of the people of the jungle. Not to mention an induced child prostitution and general social decay.