Mining Taking Place on More Than 20 Percent of Indigenous Land in the Amazon

Yale e360
Oct 8, 2020, 4:33 pm190 pts
Mining activities — both large-scale legal concessions and smaller illegal operations — now cover more than 20 percent of Indigenous lands in the Amazon, accounting for 450,00 square kilometers, according to a new report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Amazon Geo-Referenced…

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