Mongabay on Mythryl: “Mining and cattle ranching have wiped out nearly 33,000 hectares of…”

Mining and cattle ranching have wiped out nearly 33,000 hectares of natural water across four Amazonian river basins. A new investigation by Vanessa Romo for @mongabaylatam.bsky.social reveals how deforestation and pollution threaten the water security of 74 Indigenous groups across the region.

mongabay.ccAmazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers“People think that because we live in the forest we have plenty of water, but this is the reality,” Erick Tijé, an Indigenous Harakmbut resident of the southern Peruvian Amazon, says in a tone of…

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