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Gold mining reduced this Amazon rainforest to a moonscape. Now miners are restoring it


Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.

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