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 police shoot dead four illegal gold miners on Yanomami reservation
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian police and environmental protection agents were ambushed by illegal gold miners on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the Amazon on Monday and four miners were shot dead in the exchange of gunfire, a government statement said. The Environment Ministry said their team was attacked when they moved in to dismantle a wildcat […]
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 launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect Amazon
Uruara, Brazil Reuters Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Reuters exclusively accompanied raids led by environmental agency Ibama in the rainforest […]