The haul, worth more than $4 million at today’s prices, had been pulled out of the rainforest illegally ... assigned to illegal mining investigations across the Amazon, including the Rodrigues ...
While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...
"If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. "Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the ...
“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and ...
“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and ...