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Manu National Park, Peru – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #Manu #ManuNationalPark #ParqueNacionalDelManu #Paucartambo #MadreDeDios #Cuzco -
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Manu National Park, Peru – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #Manu #ManuNationalPark #ParqueNacionalDelManu #Paucartambo #MadreDeDios #Cuzco -
Rohstoffabbau im Amazonasgebiet zwischen #Peru und #Bolivien gebremst #Umwelt #MadredeDios #Bergbau
Umweltschützer*innen können aufatmen: Der #Nationalpark Bahuaja Sonene im peruanischen #Amazonas -Gebiet wurde per Gerichtsentscheid für alle Ölförderaktivitäten gesperrt. Zuvor hatte der peruanische Staat einen Teil des Gebietes für die #Öl- und #Gas -Gewinnung freigegeben.
https://www.npla.de/thema/umwelt-wirtschaft/rohstoffabbau-im-amazonasgebiet-zwischen-peru-und-bolivien-gebremst/ -
Rohstoffabbau im Amazonasgebiet zwischen #Peru und #Bolivien gebremst #Umwelt #MadredeDios #Bergbau
Umweltschützer*innen können aufatmen: Der #Nationalpark Bahuaja Sonene im peruanischen #Amazonas -Gebiet wurde per Gerichtsentscheid für alle Ölförderaktivitäten gesperrt. Zuvor hatte der peruanische Staat einen Teil des Gebietes für die #Öl- und #Gas -Gewinnung freigegeben.
https://www.npla.de/thema/umwelt-wirtschaft/rohstoffabbau-im-amazonasgebiet-zwischen-peru-und-bolivien-gebremst/ -
Minería ilegal se expande a nueve regiones amazónicas y amenaza comunidades y ríos #Peru #Umwelt #Bergbau #Amazonas #Indigene #Flüsse
Informe de Conservación Amazónica (ACCA) advierte que la actividad ilícita ha cobrado mayor fuerza en las fronteras con Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia, y se expande desde #MadredeDios hasta #Cajamarca y #Pasco, marcando una crisis ambiental y social de escala nacional. En Huánuco se reportaron 1763 hectáreas deforestadas en un solo año.
https://www.actualidadambiental.pe/mineria-ilegal-se-expande-a-nueve-regiones-amazonicas-y-amenaza-comunidades-y-rios/ -
Minería ilegal se expande a nueve regiones amazónicas y amenaza comunidades y ríos #Peru #Umwelt #Bergbau #Amazonas #Indigene #Flüsse
Informe de Conservación Amazónica (ACCA) advierte que la actividad ilícita ha cobrado mayor fuerza en las fronteras con Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia, y se expande desde #MadredeDios hasta #Cajamarca y #Pasco, marcando una crisis ambiental y social de escala nacional. En Huánuco se reportaron 1763 hectáreas deforestadas en un solo año.
https://www.actualidadambiental.pe/mineria-ilegal-se-expande-a-nueve-regiones-amazonicas-y-amenaza-comunidades-y-rios/ -
Minería ilegal se expande a nueve regiones amazónicas y amenaza comunidades y ríos #Peru #Umwelt #Bergbau #Amazonas #Indigene #Flüsse
Informe de Conservación Amazónica (ACCA) advierte que la actividad ilícita ha cobrado mayor fuerza en las fronteras con Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia, y se expande desde #MadredeDios hasta #Cajamarca y #Pasco, marcando una crisis ambiental y social de escala nacional. En Huánuco se reportaron 1763 hectáreas deforestadas en un solo año.
https://www.actualidadambiental.pe/mineria-ilegal-se-expande-a-nueve-regiones-amazonicas-y-amenaza-comunidades-y-rios/ -
Illegaler Goldabbau: Quecksilber in Bäumen, Vögeln, Fischen und Menschen #Peru #Bergbau
Bei der Gewinnung von #Gold aus Flüssen wird mit hochgiftigem #Quecksilber gearbeitet, das Flora und Fauna der Region erheblich kontaminiert und auch in die menschliche Nahrungskette gelangt. Neue Studien zeigen durch die Analyse von Bäumen, Vögeln und Fischen die massiven Auswirkungen des Problems. #MadredeDios #Amazonas
https://www.infostelle-peru.de/wirtschaft-und-bergbau/illegaler-goldabbau-quecksilber-in-baeumen-voegeln-fischen-und-menschen/ -
Illegaler Goldabbau: Quecksilber in Bäumen, Vögeln, Fischen und Menschen #Peru #Bergbau
Bei der Gewinnung von #Gold aus Flüssen wird mit hochgiftigem #Quecksilber gearbeitet, das Flora und Fauna der Region erheblich kontaminiert und auch in die menschliche Nahrungskette gelangt. Neue Studien zeigen durch die Analyse von Bäumen, Vögeln und Fischen die massiven Auswirkungen des Problems. #MadredeDios #Amazonas
https://www.infostelle-peru.de/wirtschaft-und-bergbau/illegaler-goldabbau-quecksilber-in-baeumen-voegeln-fischen-und-menschen/ -
Illegaler Goldabbau: Quecksilber in Bäumen, Vögeln, Fischen und Menschen #Peru #Bergbau
Bei der Gewinnung von #Gold aus Flüssen wird mit hochgiftigem #Quecksilber gearbeitet, das Flora und Fauna der Region erheblich kontaminiert und auch in die menschliche Nahrungskette gelangt. Neue Studien zeigen durch die Analyse von Bäumen, Vögeln und Fischen die massiven Auswirkungen des Problems. #MadredeDios #Amazonas
https://www.infostelle-peru.de/wirtschaft-und-bergbau/illegaler-goldabbau-quecksilber-in-baeumen-voegeln-fischen-und-menschen/ -
Biodiversity defender murdered in #MadredeDios #Peru #Bergbau #Menschenrechte
Calls for justice and action have rung out following the killing of an environmental defender and farmers’ leader last week in Madre de Dios – a part of Peru’s Amazon beset by illegal gold mining. The founder of the Asociación de Agricultores Nueva Esperanza and member of the management committee of the Tambopata National Reserve, he was ambushed while driving a truck in Santa Rosa region.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2025/08/biodiversity-defender-murdered-in-madre-de-dios/ -
Biodiversity defender murdered in #MadredeDios #Peru #Bergbau #Menschenrechte
Calls for justice and action have rung out following the killing of an environmental defender and farmers’ leader last week in Madre de Dios – a part of Peru’s Amazon beset by illegal gold mining. The founder of the Asociación de Agricultores Nueva Esperanza and member of the management committee of the Tambopata National Reserve, he was ambushed while driving a truck in Santa Rosa region.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2025/08/biodiversity-defender-murdered-in-madre-de-dios/ -
Biodiversity defender murdered in #MadredeDios #Peru #Bergbau #Menschenrechte
Calls for justice and action have rung out following the killing of an environmental defender and farmers’ leader last week in Madre de Dios – a part of Peru’s Amazon beset by illegal gold mining. The founder of the Asociación de Agricultores Nueva Esperanza and member of the management committee of the Tambopata National Reserve, he was ambushed while driving a truck in Santa Rosa region.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2025/08/biodiversity-defender-murdered-in-madre-de-dios/ -
Defensoría del Pueblo: en abril se registraron cuatro nuevos conflictos sociales en todo el país #Peru #Menschenrechte #Umwelt #Bergbau
La Defensoría del Pueblo dio a conocer el reporte de conflictos sociales n° 254, en el que se da cuenta de 197 conflictos sociales a nivel nacional, de los cuales 143 se encuentran activos y 54, en condición de latentes. Además, revela el surgimiento de cuatro nuevos conflictos en #Áncash, #Cajamarca, #Lima Metropolitana y #MadredeDios.
https://www.defensoria.gob.pe/defensoria-del-pueblo-en-abril-se-registraron-cuatro-nuevos-conflictos-sociales-en-todo-el-pais/ -
Defensoría del Pueblo: en abril se registraron cuatro nuevos conflictos sociales en todo el país #Peru #Menschenrechte #Umwelt #Bergbau
La Defensoría del Pueblo dio a conocer el reporte de conflictos sociales n° 254, en el que se da cuenta de 197 conflictos sociales a nivel nacional, de los cuales 143 se encuentran activos y 54, en condición de latentes. Además, revela el surgimiento de cuatro nuevos conflictos en #Áncash, #Cajamarca, #Lima Metropolitana y #MadredeDios.
https://www.defensoria.gob.pe/defensoria-del-pueblo-en-abril-se-registraron-cuatro-nuevos-conflictos-sociales-en-todo-el-pais/ -
Defensoría del Pueblo: en abril se registraron cuatro nuevos conflictos sociales en todo el país #Peru #Menschenrechte #Umwelt #Bergbau
La Defensoría del Pueblo dio a conocer el reporte de conflictos sociales n° 254, en el que se da cuenta de 197 conflictos sociales a nivel nacional, de los cuales 143 se encuentran activos y 54, en condición de latentes. Además, revela el surgimiento de cuatro nuevos conflictos en #Áncash, #Cajamarca, #Lima Metropolitana y #MadredeDios.
https://www.defensoria.gob.pe/defensoria-del-pueblo-en-abril-se-registraron-cuatro-nuevos-conflictos-sociales-en-todo-el-pais/ -
Duro golpe a la minería ilegal: Fuerzas del orden incautan y destruyen materiales por más de S/14 millones en cuatro regiones #Peru #Bergbau
La Dicapi y la PNP llevaron ocho exitosos operativos de interdicción en #MadredeDios, #Cajamarca, #SanMartin y #Arequipa.
En ocho operativos de interdicción realizados del 12 al 17 de enero en cuatro regiones se incautaron y destruyeron maquinaria y bienes valorizados en total en 14 486 640 soles, y se detuvo a 10 personas.
https://www.gob.pe/institucion/pcm/noticias/1093685-duro-golpe-a-la-mineria-ilegal-fuerzas-del-orden-incautan-y-destruyen-materiales-por-mas-de-s-14-millones-en-cuatro-regiones -
Duro golpe a la minería ilegal: Fuerzas del orden incautan y destruyen materiales por más de S/14 millones en cuatro regiones #Peru #Bergbau
La Dicapi y la PNP llevaron ocho exitosos operativos de interdicción en #MadredeDios, #Cajamarca, #SanMartin y #Arequipa.
En ocho operativos de interdicción realizados del 12 al 17 de enero en cuatro regiones se incautaron y destruyeron maquinaria y bienes valorizados en total en 14 486 640 soles, y se detuvo a 10 personas.
https://www.gob.pe/institucion/pcm/noticias/1093685-duro-golpe-a-la-mineria-ilegal-fuerzas-del-orden-incautan-y-destruyen-materiales-por-mas-de-s-14-millones-en-cuatro-regiones -
Pescadores de Barra del Pacuare denuncian muerte masiva de peces por presunta contaminación por agroquímicos
Agentes del Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) visitaron la zona para recabar pruebas, después de la denuncia hecha por los pescadores.
La entrada Pescadores de Barra del Pacuare denuncian muerte masiva de peces por pre [...]#Agroquímicos #Bananeras #BarraPacuare #Contaminación #Goschen #Limón #MadreDeDios #MedioAmbiente #País #Peces #Pescadores #Robalos
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Pescadores de Barra del Pacuare denuncian muerte masiva de peces por presunta contaminación por agroquímicos
Agentes del Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) visitaron la zona para recabar pruebas, después de la denuncia hecha por los pescadores.
La entrada Pescadores de Barra del Pacuare denuncian muerte masiva de peces por pre [...]#Agroquímicos #Bananeras #BarraPacuare #Contaminación #Goschen #Limón #MadreDeDios #MedioAmbiente #País #Peces #Pescadores #Robalos
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Pescadores de Barra del Pacuare denuncian muerte masiva de peces por presunta contaminación por agroquímicos
Agentes del Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) visitaron la zona para recabar pruebas, después de la denuncia hecha por los pescadores.
La entrada Pescadores de Barra del Pacuare denuncian muerte masiva de peces por pre [...]#Agroquímicos #Bananeras #BarraPacuare #Contaminación #Goschen #Limón #MadreDeDios #MedioAmbiente #País #Peces #Pescadores #Robalos
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Harakbut people declare ‘war’ on invaders #Peru #Indigene #Amazonas
An Indigenous community in #MadredeDios has declared ‘a state of war’ in order to defend itself from violence and to halt illegal invasions of its territory.
The Harakbut people say they had to take this measure due to the Peruvian state’s inaction in dealing the growing incidence of contract killings, organized crime and other illicit activities.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/09/harakbut-people-declare-war-on-invaders/ -
Harakbut people declare ‘war’ on invaders #Peru #Indigene #Amazonas
An Indigenous community in #MadredeDios has declared ‘a state of war’ in order to defend itself from violence and to halt illegal invasions of its territory.
The Harakbut people say they had to take this measure due to the Peruvian state’s inaction in dealing the growing incidence of contract killings, organized crime and other illicit activities.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/09/harakbut-people-declare-war-on-invaders/ -
In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses #Peru #MadreDeDios #environment #mining #deforestation #economy https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-perus-madre-de-dios-deforestation-from-mining-brings-huge-economic-losses/
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In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses #Peru #MadreDeDios #environment #mining #deforestation #economy https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-perus-madre-de-dios-deforestation-from-mining-brings-huge-economic-losses/
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In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses #Peru #MadreDeDios #environment #mining #deforestation #economy https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-perus-madre-de-dios-deforestation-from-mining-brings-huge-economic-losses/
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In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses #Peru #MadreDeDios #environment #mining #deforestation #economy https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-perus-madre-de-dios-deforestation-from-mining-brings-huge-economic-losses/
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In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses #Peru #MadreDeDios #environment #mining #deforestation #economy https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-perus-madre-de-dios-deforestation-from-mining-brings-huge-economic-losses/
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European ambassadors alarmed by threats to the rainforest in Madre de Dios region
After participating in an aerial survey of the #MadredeDios region, the ambassadors of Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union expressed their concern at the extent of deforestation generated by illegal activities, such as small and medium-scale mining, illegal logging, coca cultivation and drug trafficking. #EU #Peru #Regenwald
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/06/european-ambassadors-alarmed-by-threats-to-the-rainforest-in-madre-de-dios-region/ -
European ambassadors alarmed by threats to the rainforest in Madre de Dios region
After participating in an aerial survey of the #MadredeDios region, the ambassadors of Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union expressed their concern at the extent of deforestation generated by illegal activities, such as small and medium-scale mining, illegal logging, coca cultivation and drug trafficking. #EU #Peru #Regenwald
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/06/european-ambassadors-alarmed-by-threats-to-the-rainforest-in-madre-de-dios-region/ -
European ambassadors alarmed by threats to the rainforest in Madre de Dios region
After participating in an aerial survey of the #MadredeDios region, the ambassadors of Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union expressed their concern at the extent of deforestation generated by illegal activities, such as small and medium-scale mining, illegal logging, coca cultivation and drug trafficking. #EU #Peru #Regenwald
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/06/european-ambassadors-alarmed-by-threats-to-the-rainforest-in-madre-de-dios-region/ -
European ambassadors alarmed by threats to the rainforest in Madre de Dios region
After participating in an aerial survey of the #MadredeDios region, the ambassadors of Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union expressed their concern at the extent of deforestation generated by illegal activities, such as small and medium-scale mining, illegal logging, coca cultivation and drug trafficking. #EU #Peru #Regenwald
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/06/european-ambassadors-alarmed-by-threats-to-the-rainforest-in-madre-de-dios-region/ -
Park guard assassinated in #MadredeDios #Peru #Indigene #Menschenrechte
Only a month after Congress approved legislation that favoured the expansion of illegal mining, prospectors moving in on the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in Madre de Dios region had one of its park guards, Victorio Dariquebe, killed on 19 April. In response, the Ministry of Justice has activated the inter-sectoral mechanism for the protection of human rights defenders.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/04/park-guard-assassinated-in-madre-de-dios/ -
Park guard assassinated in #MadredeDios #Peru #Indigene #Menschenrechte
Only a month after Congress approved legislation that favoured the expansion of illegal mining, prospectors moving in on the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in Madre de Dios region had one of its park guards, Victorio Dariquebe, killed on 19 April. In response, the Ministry of Justice has activated the inter-sectoral mechanism for the protection of human rights defenders.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2024/04/park-guard-assassinated-in-madre-de-dios/ -
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Manú National Park, Peru – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #Manu #ParqueNacionalDelManu #PNDelManu #Cusco #Cuzco #MadreDeDios #Paucartambo -
#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker"Wake Forest faculty in the University’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peru’s #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
“What this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,” said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forest’s Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. “This atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the world’s largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isn’t staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
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UN rapporteurs concerned by criminalisation of indigenous organisation and its former president #Peru +Indigene #Menschenrechte
In a 23 June message to the Peruvian government, recently made public, UN human rights rapporteurs expressed concern at legal procedings initiated by a logging company against the #MadredeDios indigenous organization FENAMAD and its former president, Julio Cusurichi.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2023/09/un-rapporteurs-concerned-by-criminalisation-of-indigenous-organisation-and-its-former-president/ -
UN rapporteurs concerned by criminalisation of indigenous organisation and its former president #Peru +Indigene #Menschenrechte
In a 23 June message to the Peruvian government, recently made public, UN human rights rapporteurs expressed concern at legal procedings initiated by a logging company against the #MadredeDios indigenous organization FENAMAD and its former president, Julio Cusurichi.
https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2023/09/un-rapporteurs-concerned-by-criminalisation-of-indigenous-organisation-and-its-former-president/ -
Ausnahmezustand in #Peru ausgerufen:
Declaran estado de emergencia en #Lima, #Callao, #Cusco y #Puno
La medida regirá a partir de este domingo 15 de enero. El estado de emergencia también ha sido declarado en las provincias de #Apurímac y #MadredeDios, y en diversas carreteras
https://caretas.pe/nacional/declaran-estado-de-emergencia-en-lima-callao-cusco-y-puno/
