Police raze illegal gold mines

Wildcatting spreads in remote rain forest

Peruvian police razed dozens of illegal gold mining camps at the edge of an Amazonian nature reserve this week, part of a renewed bid to halt the spread of wildcatting in a remote rain forest region.

The stings at the edge of the Tambopata National Reserve were the first in the region of Madre de Dios since a crackdown let up in December.