Prepared for the Frankfurt Zoological Society · ESMT Data for Good, Group 5
Madre de Dios Gold Mining Watch
Five indicators for illegal gold mining, from early warnings (prices, gold flows) to what satellites see now and what the yearly maps confirm. Check monthly; act when an indicator turns red.
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Time range
Today
1 · Gold price in soles, after inflation
2 · Peru's gold gap: exports minus declared production
3 · New mining in FZS landscapes, hectares per quarter
4 · Forest that became mining
5 · New mining outside Madre de Dios
No indicator is red right now. Turn off “Show only red indicators” to see all five.
Would these indicators have warned FZS before 2021 to 2023?
Back-test from the group's notebook: when each indicator first turned red, and when that number was public.
Regional context: Brazil, Colombia and the region
Other signals the group tracks as background. They are not part of the five indicators.