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CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL MINING

4th September 2015

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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Smoke rises from a fire after police detonated motorcycles, generators and supplies during a raid on an illegal gold mining camp inside the Amazonian National Reserve buffering zone of Tambopata, in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Destruction of illegal gold mining camps in this remote area has been carried out to halt the destruction of rainforest. Police have burnt dozens of mining camps, detained people on suspicion of human trafficking and blown up a large number of motors that power makeshift dredges in alluvial mining pits. Illegal miners are said to have destroyed more than 50 000 ha of rainforest in Madre de Dios, where illegal production at one stage made up 10% of the national gold output.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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