Peru's Amazon Faces New Mining Trends and Deforestation
Gold mining has been a significant environmental challenge in Peru, with illegal operations causing deforestation and polluting rivers with chemicals.
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 and the adoption of river-based extraction methods.
This project provides one of the first national-scale visualizations of Peru's mining problem, highlighting the industry's growth and new trends.
One recent project that maps mining operations and their expansion shows how mining has spread into the country’s northern provinces and implemented river-based extraction methods that aren’t common in other mining hotspots.
Author's summary: Peru's Amazon faces new mining trends and deforestation challenges.