Photo Feature
For the Love of Gold (1)
The Peruvian National Police near their field base, Mega 12. Following Peru’s February 2019 militarised crackdown on illegal alluvial gold
mining in the La Pampa region of Madre de Dios, Wake Forest University’s Puerto Maldonado-based Centro de Innovación Científi ca Amazonia (CINCIA), is researching the impact of mercury poisoning on Amazonian ecosystems. What they learn will help guide remediation, restoration, and reforestation and will hopefully serve as a model to resurrect one of the tropic’s most dramatically devastated landscapes.
Photographer: Jason Houston/ iLCP.