ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月27日 09時49分

The @ニューヨーク・タイムズ foreign correspondent Suzanne Daley hiked 9 ½ hours through the jungle with the photographer Tomas Munita to get to the border of the Tambopata Nature Reserve in Peru. “The landscape was worthy of a ‘Mad Max’ movie,” Suzanne writes. “Huge sandy craters, mounds of pebbles and poisoned waterways were everywhere.” For years now, the price of gold has been high. As a result, illegal mining has blossomed in many parts of Latin America. But in Peru, one of the world’s major gold producers, the problem has gotten particularly bad. The amount of gold collected by unlicensed miners is ballooning so quickly that environmentalists fear that even a remote reserve like La Pampa in the Madre de Dios region, pictured here, has little chance of survival. Without help, the areas left behind, robbed of all topsoil and loaded with mercury, could take 500 years to recover. Visit the link in our profile to read more about Peru’s scramble to protect one of the most biologically diverse places on earth.

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