SOSOrinoco newsletter #11 Colombian ELN Guerrilla control Venezuelan National Park Yapacana
A case of extreme ecocide: 2000 hectares of Yapacana National Park's surface is being subjected to gold mining activity
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New interactive #StoryMap of illegal mining and how the Colombian ELN Guerrilla control mining inside National Park Yapacana (see below)
New videos of very high resolution satellite images of illegal mining in Yapacana National Park, courtesy of DigitalGlobe (see below)
If you want to see how illegal mining has exploded dramatically in the last 10 years of Chavista rule (Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro) along with their criminal cronies in the Venezuelan Armed Forces and the ELN Colombian Guerrilla movement, see below and clic on the "slides"
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StoryMap: Yapacana - A National, International & Geopolitical Matter of Extreme Urgency for the Environment
Clic here or on the image to see this new interactive StoryMap on the devastation caused by illegal mining
Clic on this image & swipe to see the difference over 10 years in Yapacana
Clic on the image and swipe left & right to see the expansion over 10 years of illegal mining in the Moyo Mining Sector
Clic on this image & swipe to see the difference over 10 years in Yapacana
Clic on the image and swipe left & right to see the expansion over 10 years of illegal mining in the Maraya Mining Sector
New videos of satellite images of the ecocide inside Yapacana National Park, Amazonas.
3D video of a very high resolution satellite image taken in 2017 (red polygons show expansion in 2018) courtesy of Digital Globe, of the ecocide by ILLEGAL MINING inside Yapacana National Park
3D video of a World View 2 Satellite image, courtesy of Digital Globe, of mines in the Cerro Moyo Sector in Yapacana National Park, where 590 hectares of unique forests and savannas have been destroyed thus far, all under the control of the Colombian guerrilla FARC & ELN, allowed by the Venezuelan Armed Forces.
