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Peru launches ‘mega-operations’ to destroy illegal mining camps in biodiversity hotspot

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 13, 2023 | 11:27 am News Latin America Gold 

Peruvian authorities were able to identify and destroy new illegal mining camps in the Madre de Dios region.  Located in the Amazon Basin in the southeastern part of the country, Madre de Dios is a protected tropical biodiversity hotspot. The...

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