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Novo Progresso, Mato Grosso state - Amazon Rainforest region, Northern Brazil. August 25, 2020.
A gold miner uses jet of water to explore gold, damaging the soil by the edge of Novo Progresso river. Criminal groups are illegally exploring this area, a land protected by law. For the past thirty years, the Amazon Basin tributary rivers have been exploited in search of gold in a crescent level. Environmentalists concerns are focused on the high level of damage this illegal mining is causing to Amazon basin and Amazonia biome. photo and text by CAIO GUATELLI
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Gold Exploitation in the Amazon
Novo Progresso, Mato Grosso state - Amazon Rainforest region, Northern Brazil. August 25, 2020. <br />
A gold miner uses jet of water to explore gold, damaging the soil by the edge of Novo Progresso river. Criminal groups are illegally exploring this area, a land protected by law. For the past thirty years, the Amazon Basin tributary rivers have been exploited in search of gold in a crescent level. Environmentalists concerns are focused on the high level of damage this illegal mining is causing to Amazon basin and Amazonia biome. photo and text by CAIO GUATELLI