The Wildlife Conservation Society rings the bell about mining contamination in the Tuichi River within Madidi National Park.
This Spanish article discusses the concerns of Deputy Director of the Great Madidi Landscape Conservation Program and Coordinator of the Interinstitutional Group of Responsible Gold Work (GIT-OR), Óscar Loayza
With more than 20 years of experience in field work in protected areas, Loayza points out that the demand of gold mining cooperatives calls for the recategorization and rezoning of protected areas based on mining activity, and not the other way around, when it should be based on natural conservation values that are approved or not. El Madidi is considered the most biodiverse park in the world.