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Panning for Gold on the Madre de Dios River in the Peruvian Amazon, the river boasts the highest levels of mercury pollution of any river worldwide due to the gold mining industry along its banks.
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Author: David Tipling / Birdphoto.co.uk
David Tipling / Birdphoto.co.uk
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