The Dangers of Illegal Gold Mining in South America
May 13, 2019· Smallscale gold mining has destroyed more than 200,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past decade. This modernday goldrush is a hub for organized crime, human trafficking, and a gateway into a treeless, lunar landscape pocked with toxic pools created by chemical runoff from illegal gold mining, stretching far into one of the Amazon''s most treasured .