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Satellites Detect Illegal Gold Mining in Peruvian Amazon
July 23, 2021
LIMA, Peru, July 23, 2021 (ENS) – Illegal gold mining is a widespread problem in the southern Peruvian Amazon; in the Madre de Dios region it has caused both river contamination and extensive deforestation.
Gold mining outside the law also is happening in the northern Peruvian Amazon’s Loreto region, which borders Brazil to the east, Colombia to the northeast and Ecuador to the northwest.
There, illegal gold mining is not causing deforestation, but it is contaminating important water resources.
Identifying this type of river-based mining is difficult because the small mining boats are mobile and imperceptible to medium and even high-resolution satellites.
But the MAAP project is well equipped with satellite data and the determination to find them. The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, MAAP, is at the forefront of the field of high-tech, real-time monitoring by satellite.
More:
https://ens-newswire.com/satellites-detect-illegal-gold-mining-in-peruvian-amazon/
Also posted in Environment and energy:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127146842