Mercury - Time to Act
Population at risk frommercury contamination
Mercury pollution from mining and ore processing Mercury contamination from artisanal and small-scale gold mining
Densely populated area Populated area
Key regions of a ected people by mercury pollution
Sparsely populated area
Health risk by consumption of contaminated marine mammals in arctic communities
Source:Adapted fromBlacksmith Institute (>www.worstpolluted.org);ArcticMonitoringandAssessmentProgramme (AMAP) (>www.amap.no) DesignedbyZoïEnvironmentNetwork /GRID-Arendal,December2012
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MERCURY – TIME TO ACT
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