The People Resisting Peru’s Illegal Goldrush

A ‘tolba’, a rustic, sluice-like contraption layered with pieces of carpet to capture gold deposits from water sediment. Taken during a government raid to destroy illegal gold mining operations in La Pampa, Peru. RODRIGO ABD/AP PHOTO/ALAMY
New Internationalist

Precious metal mafias are destroying lives and habitats in the Amazon – with help from the international trading system.… Continue reading