Nicolas Maduro’s call follows a social media post by Leonardo DiCaprio. Yet, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs say his own administration fosters illegal mining. | mining miningnews
ruled by so-called unions that, in addition to carrying out illegal logging, traffick with drugs, arms, fuel, medicine and food; create modern slavery situations, and attack Indigenous communities.
“Venezuelan military units allow and sometimes facilitate, ELN activities to drive out rival criminal armed groups,” the dossier reads. “Additionally, the ELN relies on a network of smugglers and mules who pay bribes to cross GNB lines and armed group checkpoints to bring gold to the Colombian border.”is the most common south of the Orinoco river and other areas of the great Guayana region.
Overall, illegal mining, paired with some agricultural activities and both legal and illegal logging, has led to undetermined yet high levels of pollution and to the loss of 1.1 million hectares of native vegetation coverage in the Venezuelan Amazon between 1985 and 2020. “Because of this, Venezuela’s Guayana region is considered a hotspot when it comes to global deforestation,” Clima21’s report reads.
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