While concerns about deforestation in the Amazon basin have increased with each passing year, so has illegal mining, which has directly contributed to that deforestation. With rich reserves of gold, and other economic minerals, the Amazon has long attracted miners seeking to extract those riches one way or the other. Under the administration of pro-business Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has turned a blind eye toward such activity, illicit mining has increased, per a report in the journal Nature. Thirty-six years of satellite imagery reveals that illegal mining there has reached an all-time high. Within the past decade alone, illegal gold mines have increased fivefold on the lands of indigenous peoples and threefold in protected areas such as national parks.
Scientists warn the deteriorating situation within the Amazon could soon hit a tipping point. The Amazon is a hotspot of biodiversity and a buffer against global warming that locks away carbon in its trees and soils. Per scientists, this hotspot is quickly being defiled.
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