On the banks of the Madre de Dios river, dredges work day and night in search of gold, part of a scourge of illegal mining that is slowly devouring the Peruvian Amazon. This mega-diverse region of southeast Peru has lost on average 21,000 hectares (52,000 acres) of rain forest — an area twice the size of Paris — every year since 2017 despite policing efforts locals say are insufficient.
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