Illegal mining: Gold diggers bring fresh wave of suffering to Brazil’s Yanomami
UESLEI MARCELINO, of Reuters, reports on how, a year after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami and vowed zero tolerance for illegal mining, environmental enforcers are warning that Brazil is jeopardising last year’s hard-won progress…
Brazil agencies launch raid against illegal gold miners in Yanomami lands
Boa Vista, Brazil Reuters Brazil’s environmental and Indigenous agencies have launched an enforcement operation in the Amazon rainforest to expel thousands of illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami people, officials said on Wednesday. Armed agents of the government’s environmental protection agency Ibama, deployed by helicopter and motor boat since […]
Brazil renews protection of little-seen Amazon tribe for six months
Brasilia, BrazilReuters The only two known male members of the Piripkura tribe in Brazil live in isolation on ancestral lands the size of Luxembourg in the Amazon rainforest, resisting decades of invasion by loggers and cattle ranchers. Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency Funai renewed a protection order on Friday for the 242,500-hectare area in western Mato […]
“We are being squeezed”, says prize-winning Amazon Indigenous activist
Sao Paulo, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Alessandra Munduruku, a leader of Brazil’s Munduruku Indigenous community, has seen her home broken into and been threatened over her work defending her people and their Amazon land from illegal miners and loggers, hydropower plants and other threats. On Thursday, the 36-year-old received the Robert F Kennedy 2020 Human Rights Award for “her work […]
FLYING HIGH: BRAZILIAN TRIBE KEEPS WATCH OVER FOREST WITH DRONES
FABIO TEXEIRA. of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Brazilian tribe is using new technologies to guard against deforestation…
US missionary exposed tribe in Brazil to risk of death, government says
Thomson Reuters Foundation An American missionary operating in Brazil has exposed an isolated indigenous tribe to disease and possibly death, the Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department (FUNAI) said on Wednesday. Steve Campbell, an American Christian missionary, entered the area occupied by the Hi-Merimã tribe last month, one of the few dozen tribes in Brazil that […]