Illegal Mining Spreads to Furthest Reaches of Amazon in Ecuador
BRAZIL
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2 DEC 2022
Illegal gold mining in the remote Ecuadorian province of Napo has grown at a staggering rate. Environmental crime has grown in parallel.
All About Environmental Crime
NEWS
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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21 NOV 2022
Wildlife traffickers in Mexico are taking advantage of the social media marketplace, placing some of Mexico’s endangered species in peril.
ECUADOR
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8 NOV 2022
Environmental crime is devastating the Amazon. What are these five Amazonian states doing to protect it?…
ELITES AND CRIME
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8 NOV 2022
Across the countries that share the Amazon basin, corruption that facilitates environmental crime is an open secret.
BOLIVIA
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8 NOV 2022
The Amazon is one of the world’s most biodiverse regions, where wildlife trafficking threatens hundreds of thousands of species.
BRAZIL
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8 NOV 2022
As gold prices have skyrocketed, a boom in mining across the Amazon Basin has flourished, leaving a deep environmental footprint.
BOLIVIA
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8 NOV 2022
The Amazon is being plundered at an accelerating rate. Deforesters across Bolivia and Ecuador are emboldened to clear trees for agribusiness.
BOLIVIA
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8 NOV 2022
Environmental crime is driving deforestation across the Amazon, where some parts are now emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb.
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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3 NOV 2022
In Sinaloa, Mexico, chemicals used for methamphetamine production are damaging the environment and, it appears, the health of locals.
CHILE
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2 NOV 2022
Political conflict, institutional weakness, and ineffective legislation have helped wood theft and illegal logging proliferate in Chile.
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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1 NOV 2022
InSight Crime presented two events on organized crime at a United Nations conference in Vienna.
ARGENTINA
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25 OCT 2022
Bolivia's cocaine trade is on the up. Originally a coca leaf cultivator, Bolivia has moved to cocaine production.
BRAZIL
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7 OCT 2022
Latin America's environmental and land protectors are routinely murdered by the regions criminals.
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