Gold mining has devastated 1,300 square kilometers of jungle since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2007, has just calculated the Puerto Rican scientist with satellite images. It is an area equivalent to more than twice the city of Madrid. The study, published today in the magazine Environmental Research Letters, Has detected four hot spots that account for 90% of deforestation: Guyanese rainforests spread over Surinam, Guyana, French Guiana and Venezuela (41%), the southwestern Amazon rainforest in Peru (28%), the Brazilian Amazon region The Tapajós and Xingú rivers (11%) and the humid forests of Magdalena-Urabá in Colombia (9%)
Source: El pais
