Peru Steps Up Rainforest Protection as Police Raid Illegal Mines
- Miners destroyed area of Amazon jungle next to nature reserve
- Police say women, children held captive within mining camps
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Peru’s government moved to halt the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest by dispatching almost a 1,000 police to raid illegal mining camps on the edge of a major nature reserve in Peru’s Amazon jungle.
Police raided 83 camps surrounding the Tambopata reserve in the Madre de Dios region of south east Peru, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. They also destroyed millions of dollars worth of equipment used to extract gold from river banks and beneath once virgin forest.