Caught in the middle of the jungle. Young captured in the form of ‘debt’ are forced to serve sexually to miners in ‘La Pampa’, in Madre de Dios. To leave this place they must raise money working in bars as escorts.
Tag: La Pampa
High-resolution view of illegal gold mining in La Pampa (Madre de Dios, Peru)
The images describe the expansion of deforestation by gold mining until February 2015 in the area known as La Pampa, located in the Madre de Dios region in the south of the Peruvian Amazon.
Deforestation by gold mining intensifies in Malinowski River, Peru
Image examines the area immediately at West of La Pampa Alto along the Malinowski River, where were documented more than 850 hectares of additional deforestation generated by gold mining between 2013 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).
Save the Children: La Pampa, a hell of mercury and exploitation
They call it La Pampa since before it became hell, before the machines become more than 58 thousand hectares of land in a cemetery of trees dipped in mercury.
Operation against illegal mining in buffer zone of Tambopata Reserve
Pollution of rivers, forest clearing and a desert landscape is what is observed in images of the operation against illegal mining in La Pampa, in the area known as “Mega 14”.
El País: The curse of the Amazon gold in La Pampa, Peru
In the territory of La Pampa, lost in the depths of Peru, there is no law. An activity that has 40,000 hectares deforested and polluted waters.