Jorge Caballero Espejo, Drone and GIS Coordinator at CINCIA, (black hat) preparing flight plans for CINCIA's fixed-wing drone with Wake Forest University biology professor, Dr. Miles Silman. Following Peru's February 2019 militarized crackdown on illegal and unofficial alluvial gold mining in the La Pampa region of Madre de Dios, Wake Forest University's Puerto Maldonado-based Centro de Innovación Científica Amazonia (CINCIA), a leading research institution for the development of technological innovation for biological conservation and environmental restoration in the Peruvian Amazon, is applying years of scientific research and technical experience related to understanding mercury contamination and managing Amazonian ecosystems. What they learn will help guide urgent remediation, restoration, and reforestation efforts that can also serve as models for how we address the tropic's most dramatically devastated landscapes around the world. La Pampa, Madre de Dios, Peru.
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