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Image #5: Gold Mining Deforestation Intensifies along Upper Malinowski (Madre de Dios, Peru)

Maps, Gold Mining | May 19, 2015

Recall that in Image of the Week #1 we documented how gold mining deforestation continues to expand within the Department of Madre de Dios (Peru) in an area known as La Pampa (1,700 hectares of new deforestation between 2013 and…

Mining News Watch #15

Mining News Watch, Gold Mining, Sectors | Apr 2, 2015

Report #15 // January 28, 2015 – March 17, 2015 Top Stories Antonio Fernández Jeri has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Mining Formalization and the Interdiction of Illegal Mining. The Amazon Conservation Association issued a new map…

Image #1: Gold Mining Deforestation Continues to Expand in La Pampa (Madre de Dios, Peru)

Maps, Gold Mining | Mar 26, 2015

Image of the Week #1 highlights that gold mining deforestation continues to expand in the southern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Madre de Dios). Most notably, the image illustrates that much of the most recent (2013 – 2015) deforestation occured a)…

Mining News Watch #14

Mining News Watch, Gold Mining, Sectors | Jan 29, 2015

Report #14 // December 17, 2014 – January 27, 2015 Top Stories The new regional president of Madre de Dios and former mining leader, Luis Otsuka, met with President Ollanta Humala to begin discussions of key mining-related issues. To combat…

Mining News Watch #13

Mining News Watch, Sectors | Dec 18, 2014

Report #13 // November 17 – December 16, 2014 Top Stories Luis Otsuka, mining leader and critic of the national mining formalization strategy, officially won the election for regional president of Madre de Dios. Three more small-scale mining operations have…

Mining News Watch #12

Mining News Watch, Gold Mining, Sectors | Nov 19, 2014

Report #12 // October 16 – November 19, 2014 Top Stories The second round of regional presidential elections in Madre de Dios is likely to take place on December 7th. Both candidates are strong proponents of small-scale mining and have…

Mining News Watch #11

Mining News Watch, Gold Mining, Sectors | Oct 21, 2014

Report #11 // September 18 – October 21, 2014 Top Stories In the October 5th regional elections, none of the candidates for President of Madre de Dios surpassed the 30% threshold needed for victory, thereby forcing a second round between…

MAAP #202: Protecting Strategic, Free-flowing River Corridors in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Ecuador, Maps | Jan 10, 2024

Here, we present a model river conservation strategy proposed by the Ecuadorian Rivers Institute, designed to protect strategic free-flowing river corridors with intact surrounding forests in the critical transition zone between the Andes mountains and the Amazon lowlands. The vision…

MAAP #200: State of the Amazon in 2023

Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Synthesis, Maps | Dec 4, 2023

The first MAAP report, published in March 2015, took a detailed look at the escalating gold mining deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. The following 198 reports, over the past 8.5 years, continued to examine the most urgent deforestation-related issues across…

MAAP #187: Amazon Deforestation & Fire Hotspots 2022

Countries, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Synthesis, Maps, Fire | Jun 27, 2023

We present a detailed look at the major 2022 Amazon forest loss hotspots, based on the final annual data recently released by the University of Maryland (and featured on Global Forest Watch). This dataset is unique in that it is…

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Search Results for: mining

Image #5: Gold Mining Deforestation Intensifies along Upper Malinowski (Madre de Dios, Peru)

Mining News Watch #15

Image #1: Gold Mining Deforestation Continues to Expand in La Pampa (Madre de Dios, Peru)

Mining News Watch #14

Mining News Watch #13

Mining News Watch #12

Mining News Watch #11

MAAP #202: Protecting Strategic, Free-flowing River Corridors in the Ecuadorian Amazon

MAAP #200: State of the Amazon in 2023

MAAP #187: Amazon Deforestation & Fire Hotspots 2022

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