By Carlos Meneses Santarem, Brazil, Feb 17 (EFE).- The exodus of thousands of expelled wildcat miners from the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northwestern Brazil has put people on alert in other parts of the Amazon region, particularly in areas with vulnerable native populations. The government’s crackdown on illegal mining, meanwhile, also is raising questions about …
By Carlos Meneses Itaituba, Brazil, Feb 15 (EFE).- A loud shout breaks the silence in Brazil’s Amazon region. Let out by an environmental monitoring agent, it alerts his fellow team members to the discovery of a large excavator used in recent days to open a 16-hectare (40-acre) illegal mine in an environmentally protected area of …