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What's going on with the Tropical Rain forests?
Gold mining is an issue for the Amazon rain forest because the industry pollutes rivers needed to sustain plants and animals and contaminates the environment with mercury.
Rain forests only cover 6% of the Earth when they used to cover 14%. Economic interests have resulted in the destruction of much of the world's tropical rain forests.
We lose rain forests to mining, clear cutting for highways, the cattle industry, the paper industry, etc.