Map shows and confirms a high rate of deforestation by gold mining along the Alto Malinowski River, between September 2014 and November 2015, with loss of 392 hectares of forest.
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The birth of new area of illegal gold mining in Peru’s Amazon
New high resolution image of La Pampa of September 16, 2015 shows the birth of a new area of illegal gold mining, with a current area of 1.5 hectares.
Madre de Dios: Mining entering and affects the Amarakaeri communal reserve
Report of the Monitoring Project of the Andean Amazon (MAAP) shows how deforestation caused by gold mining has achieved to enter the Communal Reservation Amarakaeri in 2014 and 2015.
Deforestation caused by gold mining expands in Peru
Near real time deforestation monitoring project stresses that deforestation by gold mining continues to expand in southern Peruvian Amazon (Madre de Dios region).