Sentence examples for gold coca from inspiring English sources

Settlers have been attracted to the area by gold, coca leaves, coffee, cacao (the source of cocoa beans), and a great variety of other crops, and government efforts to improve transportation and colonize the region continue.

Logging, gold-mining, coca cultivation and narco-trafficking were highlighted by some media as ongoing threats to the new park, but why such failure to acknowledge what is possibly, in the long-term, the most serious threat of all?

It was whether the country depended heavily on the export of commodities like coffee, timber, coca, gold or oil.

South of here, more than 5,000 peasants marched to the town of Anorí in January to protest military operations against gold mining and coca cultivation.

According to ORPIO, an Iquitos-based federation representing 15 indigenous peoples, the potential impacts of the line include the destruction of 874,000 tonnes of trees, the release of 424,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, massive biodiversity and game loss, conflict, the resettlement of indigenous communities, and encouraging the entrance of colonists, illegal loggers, gold-miners and coca farmers.

This is the ELN heartland, rich in gold and carpeted in coca crops.

Cocaine is harder to ship but much easier to produce than gold; making it from coca leaves is about as complicated as making corn syrup from corn.

A Random Forest regression model was constructed for the entire Peruvian tropical Andes, and separate models were developed for some of the known direct deforestation drivers in the region (coca production, gold mining, and land-use by indigenous and non-indigenous communities).

So he entered a contest sponsored by Gold Peak Tea, a Coca-Cola tea brand, offering the ultimate respite for weary workers: a year off work and a $100,000 prize.

Colombia's long, meandering war has also isolated Chocó, as guerrillas, paramilitary squads and shadowy new armed groups clash over its spoils — namely, gold and land for cultivating coca, the plant used to make cocaine.

The ELN has agreed to allow international monitors into its enclave, as well as letting judges and police carry on working.But the ELN now competes with the paramilitaries and the FARC for control of the enclave's 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of coca fields, several gold mines and small oilfields.