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Peru's Rainforest Turns to Wasteland From Illegal Gold Mining

Decades of illegal gold mining have transformed large expanses of virgin Peruvian rainforest into pocked, denuded, mercury-poisoned wastelands.
Image: A boy leans against a tube that is part of a rustic type of hydraulic jet known locally as a 'chupadera,' at a makeshift mining camp on May 28
A boy leans against a tube that is part of a rustic type of hydraulic jet known locally as a "chupadera," at a makeshift mining camp on May 28.AP