Monitoring Gold Mining Activity Using SAR

Abstract

The expansion of gold mining has had a large impact on the rainforests of the Amazon over the last decades. To take just one example, it has affected both the biodiversity and the lives of local people in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru. In this chapter, we will review a methodology developed to generate early warnings of deforestation based on the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images.

High levels of mercury contamination in a necrophage dung beetle of the Amazon rainforest (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

“…Other 6 individuals of C. lancifer were collected at Finca Las Piedras (Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon) (−12°13′33.0594″ S, −69°6′51.4188″ W), a research station located at 260 m a.s.l., 1 h by car from the city of Puerto Maldonado, in the opposite direction from Los Amigos, and used as a control site for our study. We assumed Finca Las Piedras could represent a fine control study for this insight considering its distance from the Mining Corridor (https://rami.servirglobal.net/) (Villa, Nova & Becerra, 2022) and the already registered occurrence of Coprophanaeus lancifer .…”