On the banks of the Madre de Dios river, dredges work day and night in search of gold, part of a scourge of illegal mining that is slowly devouring the Peruvian Amazon. This mega-diverse region of southeast Peru has lost on average 21,000 hectares (52,000 acres) of rain forest—an area twice the size of Paris—every... read full story
"The community can no longer plant their corn, their bananas, their cassava, because this land is practically dead,"