New clashes as wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil
3 years, 6 months ago

New clashes as wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hundreds of wildcat miners attacked police who were trying to halt illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon region and then raided an Indigenous village, setting houses on fire, federal prosecutors in the northern state of Para reported. Clashes around the Palimiu community have intensified since April 24, when Yanomami men took fuel and some equipment from wildcat miners they accused of encroaching on their land, Hekurari and state prosecutors said. “People wearing suits and ties give their guesses about everything that’s happening in rural areas.″ Such comments have encouraged miners, say federal prosecutors, environmental and Indigenous rights activists. Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso this week ordered the federal government to “immediately adopt all necessary measures to protect the life, health and safety of indigenous populations” in Yanomami and Munduruku territory.

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Organized crime gangs expanded into a third of cities in Brazil’s Amazon, report finds
1 week, 5 days ago

Organized crime gangs expanded into a third of cities in Brazil’s Amazon, report finds

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent nonprofit organization. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print The fact that gangs are securing monopolies on criminal activities could help explain …

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation
3 months, 1 week ago

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation

Hindustan Times  

By Amanda Perobelli and Anthony Boadle Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation SURUCUCU, Brazil, Sept 14 - Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition, the man in charge of operations …

Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
10 months, 1 week ago

Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival dancers have taken the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro to pay tribute to Brazil’s largest Indigenous group and pressure President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to deliver on promises to eradicate illegal mining. “My hope is that the world, upon hearing our call, will put pressure on the Brazilian government to remove all the …

Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
10 months, 1 week ago

Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands

LA Times  

A performer from the Salgueiro samba school parades during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro early Monday. “The chance that’s left for us is an Indigenous Brazil.” A Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter flies over an illegal mining camp in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, last year. Lula swiftly created a dedicated inter-ministerial task force to fight …

Brazil is failing to protect its Indigenous people from gold miners
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Brazil is failing to protect its Indigenous people from gold miners

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery An Indigenous family receives food …

Brazilian police probe deadly shooting on Indigenous land
1 year, 7 months ago

Brazilian police probe deadly shooting on Indigenous land

Associated Press  

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s federal police said Sunday they are investigating a shooting that killed one and wounded two Yanomami Indigenous people, saying the main suspects were illegal gold miners working in that area of Roraima state. A police statement said in a statement that the incident took place Saturday and added that the government sent members of the Air …

Brazil recognizes six Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon
1 year, 7 months ago

Brazil recognizes six Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon

The Hindu  

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon, in a move that seeks to safeguard critical rainforest from the unchecked exploitation that marked his predecessor's administration. Mr. Lula's action was partial delivery on his promises to the Indigenous supporters and environmentally minded …

Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon
1 year, 7 months ago

Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon

Associated Press  

BRASÍLIA, Brazil — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, most of it in the Amazon, in a move that seeks to safeguard critical rainforest from the unchecked exploitation that marked his predecessor’s administration. Lula’s action was partial delivery on his promises to the Indigenous supporters and …

Brazil cracks down on illegal miners in Amazon’s Indigenous land
1 year, 9 months ago

Brazil cracks down on illegal miners in Amazon’s Indigenous land

Al Jazeera  

Brazilian authorities have intensified their fight against illegal mining in areas inhabited by the Indigenous Yanomami people, sending helicopters over the Amazon jungle in search of clandestine dig sites. “Now we are starting another phase – to attack these mining operations, break up and neutralise these camps.” Spotting the helicopters, the “garimpeiros” or illegal miners, flee into the jungle, leaving …

Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory
1 year, 10 months ago

Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory

Associated Press  

ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Armed government officials with Brazil’s justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing widespread river contamination, famine and disease they have brought to one of the most isolated groups in the world. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly …

Brazil launches raids to oust illegal miners from Indigenous land
1 year, 10 months ago

Brazil launches raids to oust illegal miners from Indigenous land

Al Jazeera  

Yanomami Indigenous leaders in Brazil’s Amazon blame illegal gold miners for a health crisis and surge in violence. Brazil has launched raids against illegal gold miners blamed for a humanitarian crisis on the country’s largest Indigenous reservation, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised to defend the Yanomami people after years of neglect and rising violence. For years, Yanomami …

Brazil cracks down on illegal gold miners on an indigenous reserve in the Amazon
1 year, 10 months ago

Brazil cracks down on illegal gold miners on an indigenous reserve in the Amazon

NPR  

Brazil cracks down on illegal gold miners on an indigenous reserve in the Amazon Enlarge this image toggle caption Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's new government has launched what is being billed as a mega operation to root out illegal miners from an indigenous reserve in the Amazon. The illegal …

The Amazon’s Yanomami people are being decimated by disease and mining in Brazil. Here’s why
1 year, 10 months ago

The Amazon’s Yanomami people are being decimated by disease and mining in Brazil. Here’s why

LA Times  

A Yanomami toddler lies on a hammock Thursday at Santo Antonio Children’s Hospital, in Boa Vista in Brazil’s Roraima state. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the northwest corner of Brazil’s Amazon. At least 570 Yanomami children died …

Why Brazil’s Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
1 year, 10 months ago

Why Brazil’s Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining

Associated Press  

BOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the …

Calls for action as Brazil Yanomami Indigenous people face crisis
1 year, 11 months ago

Calls for action as Brazil Yanomami Indigenous people face crisis

Al Jazeera  

Indigenous communities in the Amazon have come under siege as business interests violently expand their operations. Brazilian officials have said that the Yanomami Indigenous people are living in dire conditions, as illegal gold miners threaten them with violence and block the delivery of goods such as food and medicine to their embattled region. On Tuesday, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba …

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post
1 year, 11 months ago

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sônia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demarcation to health care. She is widely known as the leader of the main umbrella group for Brazil’s many Indigenous tribes and is a member of …

Why has defending Brazil’s Amazon become so dangerous?
2 years, 6 months ago

Why has defending Brazil’s Amazon become so dangerous?

Al Jazeera  

On Wednesday, June 22 at 19:30 GMT: The killings of Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips have drawn global attention to the deadly threats faced by those seeking to shed light on illegal activities in Brazil’s Amazon. Pereira, a former government official with Brazil’s Indigenous agency FUNAI, was investigating illegal fishing by non-Indigenous people and had …

Brazil Indigenous expert was ‘bigger target’ in recent years
2 years, 6 months ago

Brazil Indigenous expert was ‘bigger target’ in recent years

Associated Press  

SAO PAULO — Before disappearing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, Bruno Pereira was laying the groundwork for a mammoth undertaking: a 350-kilometer trail marking the southwestern border of the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, an area the size of Portugal. While Pereira had long pursued these goals as an expert at the Brazilian Indigenous affairs agency, known as FUNAI, he worked in …

Brazil’s Senate to investigate after alleged Yanomami rape
2 years, 7 months ago

Brazil’s Senate to investigate after alleged Yanomami rape

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian Senate’s Human Rights Committee is sending a team to Yanomami indigenous territory after reports that a 12-year-old Indigenous girl was sexually violated and murdered. Reports of the crime have sparked outrage in Brazil, where many already were concerned about the treatment of Yanomami people, whose territory on Brazil’s border with Venezuela has been overrun …

Illegal mining, abuses surge on Indigenous land in Brazil: Report
2 years, 8 months ago

Illegal mining, abuses surge on Indigenous land in Brazil: Report

Al Jazeera  

Report accuses illegal miners of committing rape, other acts of violence in Indigenous communities in Brazilian Amazon. Illegal gold mining surged by a record amount last year on Brazil’s biggest Indigenous reservation, according to a new report that carried chilling accounts of abuses by miners, including extorting sex from women and girls. The area scarred by “garimpo”, or wildcat gold …

Tarnished Gold: Illegal mining stokes Indigenous divisions
2 years, 11 months ago

Tarnished Gold: Illegal mining stokes Indigenous divisions

Associated Press  

RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — The mining encampment that stretches across a mountainside in Brazil’s Amazon is dotted with plastic tarpaulin covers. Gold will be extracted from the ore. Of all places this squatter settlement shouldn’t exist, it’s here: in Brazil’s northernmost Roraima state that doesn’t permit gold prospecting, inside one of the nation’s Indigenous reserves where …

Brazil: Indigenous communities reel from illegal gold mining
3 years, 6 months ago

Brazil: Indigenous communities reel from illegal gold mining

Al Jazeera  

Sao Paulo, Brazil – The armed attackers came in boats during the night. Nevertheless, experts have said the most recent uptick in illegal mining and subsequent violence is due to falling state inspections and proposed legislation that would legalise mining across Brazil’s Indigenous reserves – both campaign promises by far-right populist President Jair Bolsonaro – as well as record-high gold …

Indigenous women’s group raided by illegal miners, says federal prosecutor
3 years, 8 months ago

Indigenous women’s group raided by illegal miners, says federal prosecutor

CNN  

CNN — “If something happens to our people, we blame the Brazilian state,” wrote a group of indigenous leaders to Brazil’s federal government two weeks ago. We will fight until the end.” Four days later, the headquarters building shared by some of those groups was invaded by illegal miners, according to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s office in Para state – …

Brazil officials warn clash looms between Indigenous, miners
3 years, 9 months ago

Brazil officials warn clash looms between Indigenous, miners

Associated Press  

BRASILIA, Brazil — A potential clash is looming in northern Brazil between the Munduruku people and mining prospectors armed with rifles and handguns who have intruded into Indigenous lands in the Tapajós River basin of Para state, federal prosecutors warned Saturday. Officials in the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Para told The Associated Press that the Munduruku community is prepared to …

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