According to satellite imagery, over 750 hectares of Yacapana National Park in the Venezuelan Amazon were deforested between 2021 and 2022 - all for illegal gold mining.
This is according to data from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) of the US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Amazon Conservation, presented on January 9.
"The regime can hardly claim that it does not realize that so many hectares have been destroyed and this is not happening," said Emiliano Terán, a researcher at the Center for Development Studies at the Central University of Venezuela.
"This worrying pattern goes hand in . . .
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