Brazil intercepts illegal flight over Indigenous land invaded by gold miners
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Air Force said on Tuesday it fired warning shots at a plane and forced it to land for violating a no-fly ban over the Yanomami Indigenous reservation where illegal gold miners have been returning despite federal efforts to keep them away. Two bursts of machine gun fire were fired during […]
Brazil Indigenous group’s crisis persists after 308 deaths in 2023, report says
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Government’s effort to evict illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the northern Amazon has stalled with outsiders increasingly invading the vast territory, Yanomami leaders said on Friday. The Hutukara Yanomami Association released a report on the year since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian […]
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…
South Africa gas leak kills 17 as officials suggest illegal mining link
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The death toll from a leak of poisonous gas in a South African shantytown rose to 17 on Thursday, as officials suggested the accident was probably linked to illegal mining. Gauteng Province Premier Panyaza Lesufi, visiting the site of the disaster near Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, said investigations were under way to […]
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 […]
Illegal miners in Yanomami reservation seek Brazil Government help to leave
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis on Brazil’s largest Indigenous reservation are asking authorities to help them leave, one of their leaders and a Brazilian senator said on Monday. Aware of an imminent military enforcement operation to evict them, Jailson Mesquita, head of the Garimpo e Legal movement (Wildcat Mining Is Legal) […]
Dozens of Yanomami children hospitalised in northern Brazil amid health crisis
Boa Vista, Brazil Reuters Dozens of Indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalised in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their emaciated frames in scenes that underscore the gravity of a public health crisis. A nurse talks to a mother belonging to the Yanomami Indigenous group, whose son is treated […]
The Long Read: Children of India’s burning coalfields dream of a fire-free future
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Death and deforestation: Cocaine trade adds to Amazon’s woes
ANDRE CABETTE FABIO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips have stoked concern in Brazil about links between drugs smugglers and environmental crime…
Brazil’s largest Indigenous reservation overrun by illegal gold mining, says report
Brasilia Reuters An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil’s largest Indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according to research and allegations included in a new report on Monday, blaming high gold prices and tacit government support. The report by the Hutukara Yanomami Association found a 46 […]