Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

Mongabay
Apr 15, 2026, 2:55 pm66 ptsTrending
The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has emerged as a major hotspot for illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon’s Xingu River Basin, a major Amazon tributary. That’s according to a new report from the watchdog Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP). At least 7,940 hectares (19,620 acres) of forest on…

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