As of 2022, Cameco's Uranium mining operations disturbed 3,202 ha of land amid biodiversity concern

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Mining is responsible for a huge amount of landscape alteration as it removes topsoil, which hinders vegetation growth for centuries1. Even if the damaged land is rehabilitated, the region could take about 70 years for climax species restoration2....

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