Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples

Mongabay
Feb 26, 2020, 5:12 pm234 pts
The Yanomami Indigenous Territory, an area with one of the highest numbers of applications for mining-related activities in Brazil, has seven known groups of isolated peoples living within its borders. Image by Rogério Assis/ISA. Nearly 4,000 requests have been submitted for mining-related activities on 31…

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