Brazil moves on illegal mines in Indigenous Yanomami territory

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 27, 2023 12:03 am

Alto Alegre, Brazil: Brazilian authorities this week intensified their fight against illegal mining on the land of the Indigenous Yanomami people, sending helicopters over the Amazon jungle in search of clandestine dig sites.

From above, heavily armed police and officials from the Ibama environmental agency spot a camp: a brown patch of deforested land in the middle of the vast green carpet that is the Amazon.

Aerial picture showing an illegal mining camp, known as garimpo, during an operation by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources against Amazon deforestation at the Yanomami territory in Roraima State, Brazil, on Feb. 24, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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