RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) The mining encampment that stretches across a mountainside in Brazil’s Amazon is dotted with plastic tarpaulin covers. Under them, dozens of men toil in rocky pits, excavating sacks of ore to be transported by truck.
Relentless pressure from the rapid growth of illegal gold mining in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is stoking long-standing divisions in local Indigenous communities about the best path forward for their collective well-being
RAPOSA SERRA DO SOL INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) The mining encampment that stretches across a mountainside in Brazil’s Amazon is dotted with plastic tarpaulin covers. Under them, dozens of men toil in rocky pits, excavating sacks of ore to be transported by truck.