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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
Source:Adapted fromBlacksmith Institute (
>www.worstpolluted.org);ArcticMonitoringandAssessmentProgramme (AMAP) (
>www.amap.no)DesignedbyZoïEnvironmentNetwork /GRID-Arendal,December2012
Health risk by consumption of contaminated marine mammals in arctic communities
Sparsely populated area