Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Mongabay
Jul 30, 2020, 1:36 pm211 pts
Illegal mining within the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, 12 May, 2020.. The earth along this Amazon stream is torn up by heavy duty earthmoving equipment, expensive machinery clearly not acquired by the miners, but likely supplied by wealthy elite land grabbers. Image © Marcos Amend/Greenpeace. Thousands of…

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Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

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