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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