Illegal miners have forced Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend work.

Science- Staff at the Panguana biological research station have received death threats.

Peru’s oldest environmental research station has indefinitely suspended work in the Peruvian Amazon because of growing conflicts with illegal gold mining operations. Staff at the Panguana biological research station, located in central Peru, have received death threats from miners who work on nearby rivers and have been attempting to move into the station’s 1600-hectare conservation preserve.

A second AndesFlux tower in southern Peru also faces threats from illegal mining, which is a growing problem in the country, Cosio notes. Since 1984, mining with dredges, bulldozers, and other equipment has damaged more than 225 water bodies, deforested 140,000 hectares of land, and affected up to 73 Indigenous communities, according to a 2025 report from Amazon Conservation, a Peruvian nonprofit group.

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