Environment Key Facts —The find. New photos show an illegal gold mine deep inside a high-altitude wetland. —The place. It sits above 3,000 metres in the Paramo de Santurban, near Bucaramanga. —The stakes. The wetland supplies drinking water to more than two million people. —The scale. One mountain of about 300 hectares now has over […]
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