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Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru
Viana Muller, Ph.D.Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a new analysis by scientists at Wake Forest University's Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA).