📋 Tender Overview
Illicit activities would have affected 40 hectares due to hydrocarbons.The first Specialized Prosecutors Office (FEMA) of Ucayali managed to destroy three camps used for illegal mining in the Yuyapichis river area, in the department of Ucayali.
The diligence was led by the provincial prosecutor Eduardo Nina Cruz, with the support of the Navy of Peru and the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp).
During the intervention, in which the provincial deputy prosecutor Bresly Pinto Palomino also participated, various goods used for illegal mining activity such as a generator set, seven motobombs, more than 1160 diesel gallons, 59 carpets of different sizes for gold recovery, 450 meters of suction hoses and a chute or gravimetric classifier were destroyed.
In addition, the illegal activity would have affected approximately 40 hectares of land, generating vegetation coverage removal, alteration of the natural riverbed and contamination due to hydrocarbons.
For this reason, all the assets found were destroyed and useless in the place, fulfilling the legal protocol for environmental interdictions.
These actions reaffirm the commitment of the FEMA in the defense of the environment, the protection of Amazonian ecosystems and the permanent struggle against illegal mining in the country.
National Coordination of Specialized Prosecutors in Environmental Matters
