Aerial picture of dredges in the illegal gold mining area of La Pampa, next to the interoceanic highway between Peru and Brazil, in the Madre de Dios southern Peruvian jungle. In an unprecedented operation, Peru managed to eliminate 55 camps for illegal gold mining in the area of La Pampa, in the region of Madre de Dios, where 60,000 hectares of forest have been destroyed by this activity.