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Illegal gold mining surges into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, threatening rivers and lives

(23 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Callao, Peru – 16 July 2025 1. Worker at Peru's National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) opening container transporting mercury from Mexico to Peru 2. Customs agents by container 3. Close of sacks of minerals mixed with mercury ASSOCIATED PRESS Puerto Maldonado, Peru - 13 February 2025 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Claudia Vega, scientist and mercury program coordinator at the Amazon Center for Scientific Innovation: "The Indigenous community and Amazonian community are the more vulnerable because they already have a vulnerable situation because we have mercury, natural mercury, and they are exposed because of the diet that they have - they eat fish, they love carnivore fish, the piscivore fish, they love it. So they are already in a vulnerable situation." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Callao, Peru – 16 July 2025 5. Customs agents opening bag in container 6. Various of customs agent taking sample from bag ASSOCIATED PRESS Lima, Peru - 13 February 2025 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Luis Fernández, research professor and senior fellow of the Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ "But what's different now is you have basically this multi-front expansion, especially in those river systems in the north, and it's spreading to other regions too. So that pattern starts to look more like a network. You've got rivers, these corridors, multiple regions all operating at once and that's something we have not seen in the past." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Callao, Peru – 16 July 2025 8. Various of customs agents taking samples from bags ASSOCIATED PRESS Panama City - 14 February 2026 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Julia Urrunaga, Peru program director for the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency: "The devastation generated by gold mining is terrible in terms of the environment and through the environment also for human health and impact, mainly because of the extended use of mercury that pollutes the water, then pollutes all the fish and all the protein that the Indigenous communities consume, as well as their water. In addition to polluting the air, of course." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Madre de Dios, Peru – 11 August 2015 10. Group of miners searching for gold in the Peruvian Amazon 11. Various of miners using water to wash and sieve in search of gold ASSOCIATED PRESS Villa Rico, Peru - 13 February 2025 12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) César Ipenza, Peruvian environmental lawyer: "The illegal mining in Peru has increased considerably. All the departments in Peru have the presence of illegal mining. Of course, there are regions in which it has increased much more considerably. Above all, I believe that the price of gold plays a fundamental role." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Madre de Dios, Peru – 11 August 2015 13. Various aerials of destruction caused in Amazon rainforest by illegal mining STORYLINE: Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, advancing along remote rivers and into Indigenous territories as experts warn of a widening environmental and public health crises that could cause irreparable damage. The surge marks a new phase for one of the Amazon’s most destructive industries, as operations move beyond long-established hot spots into previously untouched regions, environmentalists, researchers and Indigenous leaders told The Associated Press. Once largely concentrated in the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios, the activity is now moving north into regions such as Loreto and Ucayali. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...