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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

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/

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

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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

https://unescowhstamps.blogspot.com
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/

#WaterIsLife #GoldMine
#GoldMining #Cyanide