Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project

12/05/2023

Just published in Mongabay, excellent article by Dan Collyns covering our research paper published in the journal Conservation Letters highlighting the limitations of militarized interventions for conservation in the Peruvian Amazon - in this case Operation Mercury against illegal gold mining in La Pampa, Madre de Dios, Peru .

Key Takeaway: countries need to solve the root cause of the problem or be prepared to stay indefinitely, because if you leave - the problem comes back.

Between 2019 and 2020, the Peruvian government cracked down on illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, its southeastern Amazon region, through an unprecedented initiative dubbed “Operation Mercury.” But according to a recent study, miners have been returning to the areas that the operation had dri...

09/28/2023

Great coverage of the young indigenous leaders participating in CINCIA’s Connecting Cultures project in the conference in Tingo Maria, Peru. The CC project is an initiative that builds leadership skills in cohorts of young leaders in several indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Many of these communities face long odds and a host of environmental and social threats to their community’s livelihood and in some cases, survival.

Lead by Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica’s Education and Policy Impact coordinator Marta Torres, I congratulate the entire team of CINCIA staff and contractors and external partners that have worked tirelessly for months to make Connecting Culture’s inaugural cycle the unqualified success that it has become.

09/24/2023

The and mining article was published in THE most influential and high impact positioning in all of global publishing:

The front page of the Sunday edition of the The New York Times! 😮

My hope is that this piece will drive millions of new people to the story of and , increase global attention and ratchet up pressure on decision makers for solutions.

Thanks to all my colleagues who are are committed to moving the needle on this pernicious threat to global tropical ecosystems, and the people that inhabit them.

My deep appreciation to Wake Forest University, Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica ( ), USAID Peru Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Carnegie Global Ecology, the non profit program at Esri, Conservation X Labs, Biodiversity Research Institute, Amazon Aid, for the Minamata Convention for Mercury. , UN Environment Programme, IIAP - Instituto De Investigaciones De La Amazonía Peruana and so many others for partnering with us to change the future of the Amazon using the best quality science.

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09/22/2023

I was quoted in today’s New York Times in an excellent article on the growing problem of from artisanal gold mining ( ) in critical ecosystems in the basin.

Ten years after an international treaty to ban mercury, the toxic metal continues to poison. The reason might have to do with your wedding ring.

07/25/2023

An excellent article on the importance of conservation of the Amazon published in Mongabay written by Wake Forest University journalism professor, and longtime Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica ( ) collaborator Justin Catanoso.

Top tropical ecologists have spent two decades studying the impact of climate change on a single transect in the Peruvian Andes, an area unparalleled in its biodiversity. They find that every species studied there is struggling against warming temperatures.

07/22/2020

El Programa de Hidrobiología de CINCIA, investiga pozas abandonadas por minería en Madre de Dios, generando información científica respecto al uso y manejo de estos cuerpos de agua. Te invitamos a , donde abordaremos ¿Qué se puede hacer con las pozas mineras abandonas en La Pampa de Madre de Dios?. Este Jueves de 30 julio a las 5pm.
Inscríbete: https://forms.gle/aCC6fZvUwRF5nn4E9
Accede al webinar via ZOOM : https://bit.ly/3gWBZpq




USAID Peru WWF PERÚ Wake Forest University IIAP - Instituto De Investigaciones De La Amazonía Peruana Serfor Perú UTEC - Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología Ministerio de Energía y Minas del Perú PIM Planet-GOLD Solidaridad Latam Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios Sanipes Autoridad Nacional del Agua del Perú Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos UNSAAC Reserva Nacional Tambopata - Sernanp Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina

02/21/2020

Interested in doing cutting-edge mercury science in the Peruvian Amazon? Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica has an opening for an entry-level position in its Environmental Mercury research program and is looking for a qualified and ambitious research assistant. Working Spanish is a definate must, as is laboratory and field experience.

Today is the last day to apply! Send in your CV to [email protected]

CINCIA's Mercury Research Program runs , in Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios. LAMQA (Laboratorio de Mercurio y Quimica Ambiental) is Peru's first analytical lab dedicated to studying mercury in Amazonian landscapes impacted by artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM).

08/30/2019

Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica is mentioned in an excellent and comprehensive article in The Nation Magazine on
the infamous La Pampa illegal gold mining zone in the Peruvian Amazon.

CINCIA reforestation expert France Cabanillas and CINCIA affiliated researcher Jimena Diaz from UC Berkley are featured.

Peru’s aggressive campaign to eradicate illegal gold mining in the Amazon has yielded mixed results.

07/18/2019