Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Mongabay
Nov 30, 2022, 4:27 pm177 pts
WAIKAS, Brazil — From up above, long, massive, yellowish stains tear apart the green blanket of the Amazon. In the northern part of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory near Brazil’s border with Venezuela, these illegal gold mines, known locally as garimpos, blanket the banks of the Uraricoera River. The…

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