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Brazil ridding rainforest of illegal gold mines
Published on 14/09/2024
» SURUCUCU, Brazil - Brazilian authorities say they have almost squashed the illegal gold rush that drew thousands of wildcat miners to Yanomami indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition.
Is greenwashing taking travellers to the cleaners?
Business, Published on 13/03/2024
» Every hotel wants you to save the planet. The messianic messages are everywhere -- on little tent cards on the desk, proud notices on the bathroom door, and in dolorous the-end-is-nigh letters from the GM. Every hotel is saving the Yanomami Indians, Atlantic salmon and mountain gorillas.
'Operation Exodus': Brazil miners flee Yanomami land
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» ALTO ALEGRE (BRAZIL) - Wearing broken flip-flops held together by a frayed cord, Joao Batista, an illegal gold miner in the Brazilian Amazon, has been walking for days to escape the jungle, fleeing a looming security-force crackdown.
Illegal mining, abuses surge on Brazil indigenous land: report
AFP, Published on 12/04/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Illegal gold mining surged by a record amount last year on Brazil's biggest indigenous reservation, said a report published Monday, which carried chilling accounts of abuses by miners, including extorting sex from women and girls.
Indigenous Brazilians say attacks continue despite protection order
AFP, Published on 27/05/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Indigenous Brazilians of the Mundurucu ethnic group on Wednesday said their leaders were attacked following a police operation aimed at kicking out miners squatting on native land in the far northern state of Para.
Illegal mining surges on Amazon indigenous land - report
AFP, Published on 25/03/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Illegal mining, a leading cause of environmental destruction in the Amazon rainforest, expanded 30% last year on protected Yanomami indigenous lands, devastating the equivalent of 500 football pitches, according to a report released on Thursday.
Coronavirus pandemic leaves Amazon more vulnerable than ever
AFP, Published on 06/08/2020
» MONTEVIDEO - The indigenous peoples of the Amazon have already seen their homelands ravaged by illegal deforestation, industrial farming, mining, oil exploration and unlawful occupation of their ancestral territories.
Virus poses cultural threat to Brazil's Amazon tribes
AFP, Published on 10/07/2020
» AMAJARI, Brazil: In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the advance of Covid-19 presents indigenous people with a cruel cultural dilemma -- remain in their villages with little medical help, or seek safety in the city and risk being deprived of their ancestral funeral rites.
Coronavirus reaches isolated Yanomami people in remote Amazon
AFP, Published on 09/04/2020
» BRASíLIA: Brazil said on Wednesday a first case of the new coronavirus had been detected among the Yanomami people, an Amazon indigenous group known for its remoteness and its vulnerability to foreign diseases.
Climate striker Greta Thunberg wins Swedish rights prize
AFP, Published on 25/09/2019
» STOCKHOLM: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday won the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the "alternative Nobel Prize", the jury for the Swedish human rights prize said.