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The document discusses the need for regulations on gold mining in the Madre de Dios region of Peru to protect the Amazon Rainforest. Illegal and unregulated gold mining is resulting in deforestation, mercury poisoning, and water contamination. With gold mining increasing over 727 tons per year, further damage will occur without controls. The author requests that regulations be implemented to monitor mining activities, replant trees, and prohibit environmentally harmful extraction methods using mercury to save the rainforest and indigenous populations that rely on it.

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The document discusses the need for regulations on gold mining in the Madre de Dios region of Peru to protect the Amazon Rainforest. Illegal and unregulated gold mining is resulting in deforestation, mercury poisoning, and water contamination. With gold mining increasing over 727 tons per year, further damage will occur without controls. The author requests that regulations be implemented to monitor mining activities, replant trees, and prohibit environmentally harmful extraction methods using mercury to save the rainforest and indigenous populations that rely on it.

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Save The Rainforest

Foundation
9201 University City Blvd,
Charlotte, NC 28223

To whom it may concern,

We both have a common goal in protecting the environment, especially when it concerns to the
Amazon Rainforest and Peru.

However, Madre de Dios region of Peru has been neglected. In this region, Peru is not able to
monitor for illegal gold mining. As a result, illegal gold mining is prevalent in the region. Illegal
gold mining is the main contributor of pollutants in the Amazon Rainforest. To mine for gold,
illegal gold miners, burn down large areas of the forest and use non-conventional ways of mining
gold. For example, illegal gold miners use mercury and water to separate the gold from ore. The
mercury in this process emits toxic vapors into the atmosphere. The water used in this process is
dumped into nearby water systems contaminating them.

In the past 20 years, gold mining has shot up to 727 tons a year. With this increase, mercury
poisoning, deforestation, and illegal gold mining has increased. In order to prevent further impact
on the Amazon Rainforest from gold mining, Peru needs to gain control of this area and
implement regulations to monitor the gold mining process. Regulations need to be put in place to
enforce the replanting of trees and to monitor where excess rocks and dirt are dumped.
Additionally, regulations need to be put in place to monitor how gold is separated from ore by
making non-environmentally safe ways illegal.

If regulations are not put into place, gold mining will demolish the Amazon Rainforest. This will
include extinction of the native indigenous peoples and the animals, and complete deforestation.
Scientist believe that within the next 40 years, this will be the reality of the Amazon Rainforest.

Without the Amazon Rainforest, oxygen levels will decrease and wild animals for food will also
decrease. For the best interests of the people of Peru and the Amazon Rainforest, please consider
creating regulations to monitor gold mining

Kaylyn Harper
Save the Amazon Foundation

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