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Toxic Gold in Ghana : How Weak Mining Law Enforcement and Failure to Implement the Minamata Convention Are Poisoning Ghana’s Rivers, Threatening 60 Remaining Chimpanzees, and Exposing Children and Women to Mercury

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An in-depth investigation into how illegal gold mining in Ghana, weak enforcement of mining laws, and failure to implement the Minamata Convention are exposing children and women to mercury while pushing the country’s last chimpanzees toward extinction.