Rupununi gold leaves while its costs stay.
Gold value escapes while communities absorb damage. In April 2025 and again in June 2026, a government joint enforcement team arrested illegal miners inside the 930,000-acre Iwokrama Forest. Most were Brazilian garimpeiros, wildcat miners who crossed the southern border to dig where gold mining is banned. Iwokrama’s 2024 Annual Report had already reported incursions the…