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Gold-mining scars cratering the rainforest of Madre de Dios, Peru, in a satellite image
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The Open Wound: Mining Watch from the Amazon to West Africa

Madre de Dios, Peru · West Africa
A Code for Africa story, with Earth Genome and the Pulitzer Center
The Open Wound
Loading the satellite imagery and the detections
Amazon Mining Watch detections, 2018 to 2026
One flagged patch, 480 m across
Administrative area named on the map
Boundaries from geoBoundaries ADM2 and ADM3.
La Pampa, Peru, 2014: intact rainforest La Pampa, Peru, today: gold-mining moonscape
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today
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La Pampa, Madre de Dios. Scroll or drag the divider. Esri World Imagery, 2014 and today.
Amazon Mining Watch, CC BY 4.0 · Hansen/UMD/GLAD via Global Nature Watch, CC BY 4.0 · SERNANP · Africa Mining Watch, CC BY 4.0 · Photos credited in captions · Esri · full sources Amazon Mining Watch · Hansen/UMD/GLAD via Global Nature Watch · SERNANP · Africa Mining Watch · Esri · sources