Illegal gold is destroying the Amazon… and our right to know 🌳
In Madre de Dios department, southeastern Peru, illegal gold mining is ravaging one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth.
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🔴 In the region called La Pampa, the criminal group Guardianes de la Trocha controls most of the illegal gold production and spreads terror: extortion, forced disappearances and a code of silence. Meanwhile the forest and our right to know pay the highest price.
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➡️ Thousands of people killed or disappeared since 2014 in La Pampa region
➡️ Illegal gold now more profitable than drug trafficking
➡️ Massive deforestation and irreversible ecological damage
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Local journalist Manuel Calloquispe (@Calloquispe) is one of the few people who has been documenting this hell for over a decade.
Beaten, threatened with death and frequently forced into hiding, he joined Forbidden Stories' Safebox Network in January 2025 to protect his ongoing investigations 📰
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@Calloquispe Together with @MongabayLatam, we continued his investigations.
Read the full story :
#IllegalGold #AmazonRainforest #EnvironmentalCrime #Deforestation #Peru #Biodiversity #ProtectTheAmazon #SafeBoxNetwork #GreenCrimes
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