Illegal Mining Shifts Across the Amazon, Evades Enforcement and Sparks Conflict Among Indigenous Communities
Illegal mining in the Amazon has shifted to new territories and adopted new methods to evade tighter enforcement, fueling conflicts between Indigenous communities that support and oppose the activity. Folha accompanied an operation by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) and Ibama in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory, in the state of Roraima, where Indigenous people linked to illegal…
We haven't written up this one. Folha de S.Paulo (English) has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
