Mining Tragedy: Indigenous People Warned About It

The study Forest Crimes: Illegal Deforestation and Logging of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) analyses an overview of forest crimes in which it warns of their relationship to other illegal activities such as illegal mining and drug trafficking and how they exacerbate damage to the environment and communities.«Crimes affecting the environment take various forms; only two of them are forest crimes and mineral-related crimes", …

Illegal mining. Credits: Servindi Illegal mining is out of control, and Indigenous peoples have warned of this. They demand urgent action and that the 16 urgent demands they prepared to address this emergency be addressed. Servindi, May 12, 2025.- The tragedy in Pataz confirms that mining in Peru is out of control, a reality that Indigenous peoples have been warning about without being duly listened to by the authorities. In a new statement, Ind…