Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Mongabay
Dec 20, 2024, 2:39 pm164 pts
When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon was out of control. According to the research collective MapBiomas, illegal miners — garimpeiros, as they are known in Brazil — almost doubled the area they occupied during the administration…

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