Illegal Amber Mining Thrives in Ukraine as Conflict Halts Scrutiny
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The Russian invasion has disrupted efforts to regulate a lucrative and traffic gangreneous sector.
"I don't want to talk in front of the camera," he slides to the AFP, asking to remain anonymous. "We all know each other here, people wouldn't understand." Former clandestine prospector, Oleksandre repented in the fight against the illegal exploitation of amber, launched by the Ukrainian state in 2019. Today high in a mining company, he tastes the benefits of a fixed salary. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has disrupted efforts to re…
Illegal amber mining has devastated the landscape in Rivne, northwestern Ukraine, leaving only stumps, small bushes and swampy puddles deep in the coniferous forest.
The war has paused environmental controls in the north-western Ukraine, and the illegal extraction of amber has resumed more beautiful. A... Read more Ukrainian amber becomes an easy prey for underground networks appeared first on Le Singulier.
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