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Mongabay: The Nineties were a decade that stood out for Venezuelans, because they discovered that the were garimpeiros in the south of the country. These traditional miners from Brazil, drawn by the gold rush, had crossed the wide Amazonian border between the two countries digging ditches in the middle of the rainforest in order to extract the precious metal. These illicit activities affected the fragile equilibrium of the Amazonian ecosystem, the health and way of life of the local indigenous and Creole......
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Gold mining in Venezuela: “perfect storm” of illegality, deforestation and mafias
Posted by Mongabay: None Given on March 11th, 2016
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