say all of the horses have now been caught that's all for now. up. next is dark film. stay tuned for that. i'm on the nice of thanks for watching the do big ocean view companies play a role in the destruction of the rain forest. the letter for luxury casa, often comes from illegal capital funds in the amazon. yet to supply chains does matter to the view industry. the illegal, as a stats may said, on dw good lumber, indonesia, a power dies island. the tools over a 1000000 to is to you get beneath it spoke,

honey kills is a hidden treasure gold. and that's why the island has one of the densest populations of gold miners in indonesia. southeast asia is biggest go to produce. but this industry is fueled by a deadly element for your to, for don't use mercury yet, but we won't get the gold one group of medical they could kill and make you a health problem. some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning up my mind and my dad adds the talks and is spreading for the medical area and that i love, this is the level at which you have to evacuate out of quasi luxury is how you're fully regulated. multibillion dollar goes mining industry. how did this make sure we get to on why is it being used to what i do that has to be very

careful, very distrusting of journal. there's not any on the volume you must constantly one, the public about the risk. the n g is working in and around sacred tone. an area consisting of 3 small villages has counted nearly 50 children, born with new, logical, and physical best defects since 2018 minus gotta step and then what's your name? erica? your new here here. yeah, but i find that i'll let say me today for these children are being examined by

concerns will include up to the been done now started with seizures, and now he's constantly drooling where he's worried. there may be a common thread time that conditions together. it is by then by the end, how long some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of my mind. and i'm very concerned because i also have a young child. and i said that we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions and there is no cure. then it's a one of them either or back on there. how many were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born data, medically? yes. e, and what does the season started when she was one lady down the going to nevada. she's also data west to west nancy that the plus what i'm worried about not carry somebody because you hear a lot about. it's the fact that the medical people off i get to exposure to match you the temple's irresistible and even faithful. how this is well documented with

previous major disasters. so having a stuck reminders of the risks, it poses this child of 6 as an even more severe case. she is incapable of expressing herself and barely reacts to light naturally pull his name was once tied to college and ration and manufacturing. however, by the 21st century, most industries adopted alternative met to a free production methods. then a new danger in much is your husband a gold miner? yes. yes. the story of informal goals, mining and loan book style sheet around 15 years ago when locals spoke she's, you know, put unity, large mining company found, and lots deposits in lumber. local people started to think about, oh,

if there is gold for large scale, probably we can get the small scale one. so they thought they could get, you know, the crumbs from the big guys just had even been in full mining, took off, eventually producing more goals than corporate mining companies. up until now the gold mining activities, especially the small scale illegal, illegal and illicit. normally secretary of about the work to day 19 a has agreed to share his story. now messiah bought the 9. 5 by i landed on both. my name is thought to them by indigo. i was born in lombard, right? yeah. so i'll go to yeah. yeah. and i did a lot of people go to work and the fresh air was efficient. and my goal is to do this, how to load and off, because it now is when it the so let's say i chose to become a 1000000 out and do it because like,

it doesn't have to be here to the middle. but i've got this, i thought i thought i have to pam i quickly before i leave the house because look like so out of my minding tools and by the yeah, this to the trip then take 2 hours right down to the it's getting late to such a hurry to pull out of that as i well, how firms and some including my uncles and other relatives. i have real gold miners just like me. my new, the i the phone number the

that us and i feel a sense of joy when i get to the present on the follow the sound big scene. yeah. the yeah, i got all the people i work with. so i'm like, my brothers. he saw that the follow up. so i do laurie west. it's natural is the i the, the, an estimate is $22000.00 people in lumber, depend on small scale gold mining to earn a living. excavations precariously from the steep mountain side is social dominance personal mine. but he doesn't go to that noon. it's currently is a 16 meters, the is naturally small frame and muscular bills provide him with a particular advantage. when descending into the depths,

the loss of little muscle, we need to prioritize our safety and let me go down the hall and i do the the, the work is extremely dangerous to low oxygen levels. intense heat falling. wilks flash floods and gas leaks when that total tools of a few of the risks. only recently, if i told them and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen, how long does that sound good spot on? my god, i'm still alive and my colleagues thought i was the you know what i mean? again, i'll go ahead and add the bottom line. i need somebody to put

this pull. the color of this rock is white. that's good department. and then they're also greens and realize it has black veins. 9 to left standing. very good. but the wheels, angel begins with size, hold on and we tons has now he was process seal to extract the gold and met to be is the key component. yeah. and the finally get home by the pound, the, or from the mountain into small pieces is that the lawyer is that the little. but the in the rocks are placed in a bowl mail where they are combined with weights and hundreds of pieces of water. gradually they breaks down into the settlement as i put this mercury in

the bowl to collect the call to the the, the it is poured into the bowl. now to bind with a go the mouth to eat is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold and poisonous fumes. and finally, the toxic waste whole time is discard each into the environment. the socket hospital officials came to my house to explain the risk to mercury to us, but there's nothing i can do. we don't know how to process the or without using good right, by the name of the i found all i know i to being you that the merger is an extremely has or does metal the can have severe consequences on human

health and the environment. it can cause minimize disease, which is a serious condition leading to coma analysis. death can also cause new or logical disorders, especially children. it can cross the human flush center leading to burst defects and other logical problems. globally 20 percent of the annual go production comes from info minors like essential rama in indonesia, moco baby produced like this, that informal mining operations to complicate matches the minus pulling mills often located near a local realtor filters. the contaminated waste water. then find its way into drinking wells. rice patties and the rivers and scenes where people

fish, causing open leafy onion like one level. but i've accomplished uh simple to pick. i uh, research conducted by several universities such as my thought i'm university. sure, the mercury is present in festivals and fruit and other food production in lumber are falling into. that's where you put the milk. see, find them. yeah. so if anything to them or no matter what we get to now, i didn't even get into the toxicity of the mercury, doesn't just cause problems where the miners were crouching. it also spreads to other places. what do you live with? and i knew that some of them give me something that i might have sent them, but then i am. but that smells who, naturally, which is central tendency to be an accumulates in the air until one day. some way. it falls as toxic rain and they get a new wherever the wind takes it and yeah,

the can't escape it. nothing happened. data naturally does not break down in the environment. the moist fused to move is accumulates, building up in the food chain. the today, federal rahman is a happy the us, you know, i'm saying is a tape. i think it's about off a graph that's was around $300000.00 group adams, but outside siad on the left behind. yeah, that's, i'm thrilled. that smells and twice the amount in daily is efficient. but at what cost will this. com? so his family, neighbors, and community. this is the only metal, this is liquid room temperature. mix it with cold and watch

a mesmerizing ritual funding on for the past and part of china is sold to have died after consuming mandatory in his pursuit of immortality. he was not the last abraham lincoln, the pirates king black beard and isaac, new old as eve to have suffered from that to be poisoning in the 20th century map. here we continue to be used in medicines, lightbulbs, some moment to this cause metrics low within the 1950s a much we leak as a factory in the seaside town as many montage upon killed moles a 900 people and left thousands, permanently disabled. here is another child whose father died minimize the disease

. her limbs are deformed. that is austin, that to title regulations around the world. by 2013 a global treaty, the minimum of a conventional met to a was born. today, $99.00 countries, including indonesia, rectified the convention, mandating them to protect the citizens from the dangers of this deadly metal. yes, this trench continues the level as a result of goals mining naturally use headstrom that the key increased and that is a sized complication. sort of the now the form of this i meant for the difficulties

diagnosing not to re poisoning, is that symptoms of similar to those of other diseases. how about medically to actually refines to have enough capture the symptoms that appear very similar to those of many neurological disorders lane. that's how they get a number of tests on needed to ensure the symptoms are really due to mercury poisoning with the any other never and use of previously collected samples in long bulk. but the efforts were not extensive. concerned with the doctor of action today, doctor is leaving a team to conduct bio mancha testing. that's the community what the assessing. yeah . uh nice problem. concerns is so we have to find out just how big the problem is.

first on that list, especially rahman and his stomach, he said, debbie about that the only thing hello sir. my name is dr. de la. my areas of ation is a mining hot spot. and just in my center, we want to monitor people's health and the impact of maturation. we would like to test you, your wife and our child is to be on the physical and cognitive tests. a carried out. did you take early signs of poisoning? don't recognize the front of mind as i can do that last me right. i don't. why the because don't have to change. if i looks like it is starting to whiten up on my mind, what am i yeah. being able to hear from the case of mental units, the word simply sensation maybe that and that yes, sometimes it does sound like

how long does the child being doing uncontrollably again, sometimes the last 2 or 3 days then the team takes half and now samples yeah, i'll give you that, as i told you, that you can release to been examined by the daughters a lot of shots to do that and i'll get the investigation continues with a search from that to me in the in the last moment. this is a new mix, portable mercury analyzer that did there. and i think this device allows us to measure the mercury in the air at a specific location. so the analyzer generates results immediately a reading about $1000.00 is considered on safe wait for

the kind of here's the results of what? $8657.00, the mercury concentration in the around this ball mill is between a $110000.00 planograms per cubic meter. is in it, the 121-0002 the number where you have to evacuate. how does yep, if i don't see this, i am not based on these results. so i feel that mr. font to remote in his family's health are in danger. yes. you know, it's hopefully taking the back the figured reach 10000 with uh, our initial findings indicate that so to them on as how sessions. so, but that's the number of exams show that the coordination of the left and right. there's many of them from i'm about and i'm with them from his ability to

coordinate fine motor skills is full, so slow and then the average person. that's it. that is all man. uh, we can see there are already some issues some about uh other than one memo but the tests may have come to late, full size around in some possible while i'm on, i'm on the bus when well, mine started gotten the last possible loss as to how they did a lot of daylight to us and how it and yeah, i realized he didn't want to suckle side that as i kept him home to take, i don't mean that bundle on or plastic hope to talk to right away. so helping a young people, the doctor took

a biopsy to investigate the issue that i'm hoping was it this in testing or assessing? yeah, it would not function properly. yeah. might be so they could not. but my now due to his deformed in test gains, special darling's child is on able to move his files. instead, the excrement needs to be sent out through a tube on a daily basis is out. i'm done by any get that. yeah, the doctor told me how to treat him like 90 myself. my wife can carry out the procedure on yeah, a lot by the unable. yeah. and yes, that this can only be a temporary fix. the, again, any that i'm going to see is exposed to meant to revise the time of a little behind the baby's, susceptible to molecular and genetic changes where instead of getting it big. yeah, that can lead to an amount of t as the organs phone. but i haven't been able to have them in the front of them, but no problem with that of my skin is as

a search and said he needs to be operated on the same time. but i don't have the money my number because i don't have insurance costs around 30000000 group us a bundle. it's a deal with the i don't have that kind of money. no, cuz i and the these trials illness is less defensive, around the, in the enviable position of having to mine more to be able to pay for the surgery. over the next 2 days, the team collects half a nail cuttings. from 9 more individuals. it will take a month for the samples to be analyzed in a lab. do you usually do you need those codes if you'd be a star, if you did pass the results might provide on some of those testing

number. it is just a microcosm. the 4th remains a wide spectral, across much of the donation. in west specific data alone, probably $1000.00 ton a year. $1000.00 tons of memory. one drop of memory can kill and, and make you make your health problem. but we're talking about 1000 tons, grams up here and all over indonesia, 3500 tons the the, the health issues based on central rahman or tucson. and i know it's unique to them,

but in many countries as opposed to doing informal mind. also using metrics to extract in asia, the problem is to, to the most run point in indonesia where they're over 850 small scale mining hotspots across the country. the, nobody knows exactly how much mercury is being used. estimates vary wildly from 300 tons to over 3500 was use. know, is it that or at least $300000.00 minus, using met to in indonesia. each of them uses up to 20 parts. met to me for every possible goal, because this is a problem to the indonesian government who has committed internationally to deal

with mercury f 115. and now my thought is the minimum of convention is a binding international agreements. and then the countries that aims to protect human rights and the environment from the dangers of measuring the i am equity in the set. and denise jo ratified the minimize a convention with a 2017 loan now and its own ready. according to the national action plan, indonesia has committed to eliminating the use of victory by 2020. the following. i met with some with the national action plan. includes policies like the adoption of alternative technologies for gold processing and the tougher enforcement news is also recommend that the production of met 2 we should be still. this starts with the preservation of the mining of an old coal cinema which mercury is made from the there are

a couple of things that can be done to stop for all this problem created by mercury and indonesia. first is to stop the extraction or mining of snow bar including the smelting and the process to produce medically from the or and the 2nd is prohibitive. the cell trade of mercury, including exportation mining injuries, finding center about oil in indonesia is not against the little if you have autonomy. but the government has not issued any time. it's making it de facto illegal. regardless, a secret under listed domestic production and supply chain from that to me is still prospering. today's price, $3500.00 tons of met to

a could be was over $370000000.00 us dollars the where 10 percent of our or come from products according to my information, to send a volcano from setup island into the most. and i'm to be able to do that. and indonesia, you have to have a backup. so you will be able to continue the business and activities without any disturbance. so this high rank of the shows could be police, military or a government official. and we heard from morris and i like to tell stories from people underground that there are some important people picking up their businesses . we contacted the administrative environment and forestry. it was used to comment on the elicit mercury trade. ringback one of the largest and about mines in indonesia is allegedly on sarah island in my

little crew products. and despite its illegal nature, it can be seen from space. the satellite pictures taken in full list plenty 20 to the blue 10th hides the mining activity of machinery that allow mine is to excavate. to send about old local journalist a trying to expose this illegal activities. the says i'm going to the mountain to find the scent of all my number. so yeah, my name is reese, the i'm a journalist given that lease, sorry. i'm tell you, i mean my, my daily reporting. so comes primarily the environment on an indigenous people. if i look north, malcolm must have had that the model code on my local data that

i want to document the mining activities and become independent sources. so like, yeah, on the muscle because i love them, keep them up. it's very difficult to get in. like i say, so i have to be very careful because i love the very distrusting of journalists because they can expose the information to the public. this illegal mining still exist as somebody like telling me much. i wish long try to get protection from the village head whether mine is situated, but failed to get us out. they don't want the media to expose their mind. the tools, the central mind that a new open up about people who receive brian chicago to somebody to find that's widely believed by police officers are involved who i think the best way to do. but then practically shouted, felt responsible in person can phone the structure like imagery, the film,

the following, his move out of food. and i found the minus 10 to 12 here in the middle of the mountains near about 1000 meters above sea level. that are good again, so superintending today, due to me that the close of tents has been setup of quickly if there was no wave activity would go in low test, thousands of tents not. and it's impossible not to notice them. this raises the question, even with the southern counties a cold and they take up hunting, applying di attempts to shut down the mines. what publicized in the media in 20172020. but as resigned found out, these attempts have failed to get a memo,

this class that they were still active cinnabon mining and engineers in need for ins to home. the is due to a couple of things. it to me, i discussed being we know inforcement and back on who can get out of my this is due to several factors. for example, the involvement of nor enforcement offices, old and lack of resources in the field. i still am on monday. the on sarah is believe to be some of the purists in the world. this creates an alluring opportunity for those with intentions. so full i don't. yeah. and if i'm a gun, but those the number least the discovery of center bar in surround and other parts of eastern indonesia where there's been a bar about indonesia has become an ex border of mercury and many of the largest porter. yes. do you mind? yeah, buying this out of all the books are being a daddy that, that be so sorry, based on the dates or i have compilers get some new kind of officials appear to be involved in

a go i such has been some couple me sonia and the solution is come with me. not got this guy. we traced quotes documented goodman. i did underneath that on discover the shipment of synagogue, has been delivered using an engine easy and a national armed forces truck with a driver. and i remember play g, and then i found a movie then you've got, but i'm more than a blend up. i can get with somebody then i'm i also found a court ruling and numbers where the police were involved in trading mercury, me, but the lumber to enter the 10 according in leasing to use. illegal refineries have been spoke to you to an apple vogel. i'm joined by the day constantly on the move to evade detection. a no response believes that there are also refineries on several items. the

document that there is activity that they have, the results on the top to disease or distillation, where they get the, the kind of look more into them. the, with the influx of domestic mercury, indonesian gold miners now have a plentiful supply of the toxic metal. traditionally, so through a middle 9, it's currently available on social media platforms, like facebook, west sellers provide delivery right to the miners doorstep. we checked with facebook quiet. this is happening, but they have yet to reply with an innocent, but highly functional supply chain. mercury is finding its way into the hands of gold. mine is full of indonesia. this is welcome news to the minus and secor tongue grumbled by the majority of the population. a reliant on goes mining for anything.

just one gram as goal is, was really helps the usual monthly minimum wage. not gold linings in poultry because there's no other one from the some why. so you can only mine here in secretary cut off by you if you don't use mercury while you call and get the call among the even if you could see the golden rule, i couldn't get to a, i found a mazda i bought the them not, not at the expense of trying their best to convince the miners to change the ways to get that money into. but i just need to ask some of the next step. i get that to them. when we went to the field, we trying to educate the miners when it gets out while i'm on medical the little. uh and that's where they know that mercury is very toxic. i think i didn't, but they don't want to be banned from using. and i won't be allowed on little enough. i'm including so when we try to talk to them and educate them. uh,

they turned against us online. yeah. the i yeah. and i'm talking to you then i'm not gonna do that. yeah, i'm, i find that out. so can we, has this disadvantage and do with it also has the voltages either confusing got the thing you ever hear me? yeah. what i got, but now they were ultimately of the opinion that is their risk to take up under icicle. get that what mine is, mike doesn't understand is a slew a didn't city is the sights of mercury poisoning. these can include mental emotional disease, the serious condition that can lead to paralysis, neurological disorders and local research. i talked to a previously larger team to carry out testing on 10 individuals in secretary. now the results of back to naturally concentrations in the safe threshold is 1200000. none of the people tested within the safe threshold.

no, no account minus samples came by 26.7 times high. as in the safe level. mckinney who used to be a minor registered 9.8 times high. his child $5.00 times the safe level casual wellness result showed you reading. it was 12.7 times higher, while his baby boy nice you recorded full time is the safe level, the what you get from the additional things to quote those. uh so i'm say that the result is very, very loud. i mean, and that we should be very concerned about this. the test results back up. the initial findings is a cognitive examinations. the 1st clinical assign, usually happens within the 5 years, for example,

the capability of this month or the nation is being being effective. the 2nd phase of symptoms often much most of the patients can present with opens area on your logical decline that that yeah, the random daddy disability depends on how much mercury is in the body and the person's resistance to mercury, which varies highly in seeing if that might be mercury poisoning is more likely to impacts children and severely fell on your side. yeah. by you need them. you have i'm using your law here. i mean yes. what up i'm in a baby is born that has been exposed to mercury and i know they may look normal. you know, i hear the word. they may have dfcs depending on the disorder that occurred during the development of the babies organs and the wound up on the side. unless i buy a supplement book on, on the for the children and the secretary of the results from the test. since other

available evidence would strongly suggest that the severe illness is being caused by mercury. in such a scenario of international aspects advise immediate action such as the evacuation of polluted areas. in reality, this is unlikely to happen here. the n g is not given up. so in low bulk, they've introduced a new method of extracting gold from the old by using mills that make use of cyanide. instead of that to me. the table by 2 co operative filter processing plant. so cyanide is extremely poisonous. the residual danger of environmental buildup is low compared to match a name and as

a data on an investment, the sy, in addition process is much safer because when cyanide is mixed with water, it immediately breaks down into nitrogen. again, it's actually stay for the environment and the uh, what mean when, when i got the, when the miners were using the mercury process, but they only yielded 20 grams of gold. you have been a little something painted on salt when they used to sign addition. they use that 60 to a 100 grams of gold, and then that's what got them interested process. yeah, he does. he does on the ground execution, prove tricky. the process works directing gold using mercury is a quick process to put it only takes 2 to 3 hours to get the gold was done separately. got debit sign edition can take 72 hours or 3 days to get the gold see . yeah. the how do you that's not the only 100 minus like fast. what rahman? usually whole as most 2 sacks of will also mountain each day. but processing with

cyanide, requires a huge amount of will in one go. ideally a 150 facts. even if individual minus could afford the weight, the cost of extraction is too high, the to potential rewards up skilling a ton to sing the products of informal goals minus or over indonesia could be huge . but to achieve this, the government has many obstacles to overcome. escape when that gets, even though the 2025 talk it is 100 percent. it's mercury and free because the fact is, demetrius is still being used in the fields we left on talking the supply of mercury . is one possible solution for funding by a government should strictly prohibit cinnabon lining again, so not the issue. permits is even stronger international regulations may help. so

one shortcoming or the minimum of the convention in respect of small scale mining is that the treaty regards this mining as a allowed use for america re position should be the other way around, that mercury should be banned, produced naturally continues to be. so originally used by goals, minor a def black markets and not shut down. ultimately, it is the youngest generation and the generations who come off to them, the little pay the heaviest price, blah blah blah. if you can give me another job begins and you can separate me from isaac, sit on the give me another job. begins that i just have. yeah. the

one that is on the ice is all current condition. so i'll do my best to keep my son hillside. do you want a deadline? yeah, and i say, i know he's normal kid. yeah. but i'm still grateful. he was born on a model. yeah. they do. i just, i have also got a lot of friends, i hope myself to have to be healthy. soon the

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