Satellite Imagery Combats Eco-Destructive Activity in the Amazon

Berkeley Scientific: the journal of young scientists

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Shane Puthuparambil

关键词: Madre de Dios;    Gold Mining;    Deforestation;    Satellite Imaging Technology;   

DOI  :  10.5070/BS3232045347

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of California, Berkeley

【 摘 要 】

The Madre de Dios (MDD) regionof southern Peru is one of the mostbiodiverse regions in the world, home tothousands of endemic flora and fauna. Likemost wild places, MDD is facing tremendousenvironmental degradation, primarily inthe form of artisanal gold mining. Thisphenomenon has had seemingly irreversibleimpacts on the department’s water quality,forest carbon stores, biodiversity, and humanhealth.1 All of these complications emergefrom the unregulated excavation of soil alongwaterways, removal of trees, and heavy use ofmercury to extract gold.

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