The Gold of Abandonment and the Nukak: How Guainía’s Mining Frontier Presses on a People Already Facing Extinction

The Gold of Abandonment and the Nukak: How Guainía’s Mining Frontier Presses on a People Already Facing Extinction

by | Aug 15, 2026 | Colombian Amazon Focus, Deforestation, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Investigation, Mercury Contamination

A Nukak camp on cleared ground in the Colombian Amazon, May 2026. Photograph by CAJ Staff Photographer. In this reportJump to a sectionWhat the reporting shows in GuainíaThe people the article does not mentionWhere the frontier meets the Nukak: a corridor through...
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