Minería ilegal de oro provoca pérdida económica de más de $593 millones en la Amazonía peruana

This report shows the results of the application of the CFS's Mining Impacts Calculator in recent (2022 and 2023) illegal mining areas within 3 native communities, all located in the buffer zone of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in southern Peru. This is an effort to show from a comprehensive perspective (economic and environmental) the implications of deforestation due to illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon.

Alex Pfaff

Alexander Pfaff is a Professor of Public Policy, Economics and the Environment at Duke University. He studies how economic development interacts with natural resources and the environment, focused on designing environmental and development policies that influence choices by individuals and groups to support nature and livelihoods and to reduce damaging environmental exposures. He holds a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Applied Math and Economics from Yale University.

Kirsten Oleson

Kirsten Oleson is a Professor of Ecological Economics with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist, who employs tools from economics, social science, ecology, and decision analysis to ensure that the value of nature is captured in national, state, and community decision-making.

Erin Sills

Erin O. Sills is the Edwin F. Conger Professor and Head of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University.  Her research lies at the interface of environment and development economics, including design and evaluation of forest conservation and climate change mitigation strategies.  She received her BA from Princeton University and her PhD from Duke University.