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Published on: Wednesday 02 September 2026
Until a century ago, few Matsés had ever been in contact with a white person before. The Indigenous people lived in a remote area of the Amazon Rainforest, along the border of Peru and Brazil, in ...
News Peru » Loreto » Health: Mercury poisoning in Peru’s Amazon threatens health disaster
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Published on: Friday 20 June 2025
LIMA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous and riverine communities in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon have “chronic exposure” to mercury, according to a new study by the Center for ...