High gold prices are leading to an increase in mining activity… Mining activities threaten Suriname's primary forests, some of the most-intact in South America… Mercury released from the mining process can be toxic, and is showing up in human population centers far downstream. A newly released report published by the Amazon Conservation Team… [Finds that] “In addition to being a driver of deforestation, small-scale and industrial gold mining carry significant threats to ecosystem services and human livelihoods, both proximate to the source and further afield”