Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal mining spreads
Updated: Feb 24, 2022
| Thomson Reuters Foundation | December 17, 2021 |
| 7:54 am Education Latin America Gold |
Nearly 60% of tested people in Munduruku villages had mercury levels above what global health organizations consider safe. (Image: Katiabraga | Pixabay.)
Illegal gold mining in the north Amazonian territory of Brazil’s indigenous Munduruku people has led to more than half of several hundred people tested showing unsafe mercury levels in their bodies, including children, health researchers say.
The spread of mines — with mercury used to extract gold from other minerals — is also helping drive Amazon deforestation, which has soared 22% in the last year to the highest levels since 2006, a government report showed last month.
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