Peru News » Madre De Dios News Peru » Madre de Dios » Economy: Peru election highlights lack of plans to tackle illegal mining despite growing environmental crisis
News channel or source: https://www.newsday.com/business/peru-election-illegal-gold-mining-deforestation-amazon-mercury-y13002
Published on: Saturday 11 April 2026
As Peru heads into elections, most political parties lack concrete plans to tackle illegal mining, a major driver of deforestation and mercury pollution in the Amazon.
News Peru » Madre de Dios » Economy: REDD+ mechanism advances in Madre de Dios
News channel or source: https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?209009/REDDmechanismadvancesinMadredeDios
Published on: Sunday 09 June 2013
• Madre de Dios is on a crucial stage towards the REDD+ mechanism implementation in the region, as preparing to identify its Reference Levels. • These are critical to negotiate future schemes that ...
News Peru » Madre de Dios » Economy: Peru Running Out of Ideas to Stop Illegal Mining in Madre de Dios
News channel or source: https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/peru-illegal-gold-mining/
Published on: Sunday 10 March 2019
Authorities have dismantled about 30 illegal mining camps during the first week of the operation Authorities in Peru launched a large-scale operation aimed at driving out illegal gold mining and other ...