Venezuela’s hidden runways bring both life and destruction to Indigenous lands

Mongabay
May 24, 2023, 4:28 pm122 pts
SANTA ELENA DE UAIRÉN, Venezuela — Flying over a dense jungle in southern Venezuela, the sea of trees below is suddenly replaced by large patches of bare soil, tree stumps and the turquoise waters of ponds from abandoned gold mines. An airstrip 600 meters (about 2,000 feet) long marks the entrance to one…

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