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Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Oct 6 (EFE).- (Camera: Lucas Carpio) A barren and muddy wasteland is all that is left of what used to be a lush Peruvian jungle that was pillaged during the so-called gold rush which transformed the area into a criminal hub of illegal mining.Some 25,000 hectares of Amazonian jungle have been destroyed in La Pampa, Peru’s largest illegal gold mining area in the Tambopata national reserve located in the Madre de Dios region. FOOTAGE OF LA PAMPA, WITH DEFORESTATION AND DIRTY WATER.
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Images of flooded streets in Dubai as torrential rains and high winds lashed parts of the Gulf. Flights were cancelled in Dubai, the region's financial hub, while schools were shut in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. IMAGES
Relatives of four Indigenous environmentalists killed in 2014 in an Amazon area on the Peru-Brazil border march to a Peruvian court in Pucallpa, where the perpetrators were sentenced to nearly three decades in prison. IMAGES
UN climate chief Simon Stiell warns that global warming will "decimate G20 economies" without unity. "Sidelining climate isn’t a solution to a crisis that will decimate every G20 economy and has already started to hurt," he says during his address at the UK think tank Chatham House, London, UK. SOUNDBITE
Activist Greta Thunberg says that a ruling by Europe's top rights court that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change is "only the beginning". SOUNDBITE
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