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Gold Mining Destroys The Peruvian Rainforest With Mercury

Over the past five years, small scale gold mining has destroyed over 170,000 acres of beautiful rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. To put things into perspective, 170,000 acres is about 200 of New York’s Central Park’s all lined up together. Unfortunately, that number is 30% higher than previously recorded, according...