— Shortly after taking office, Lula launched a massive enforcement operation in February 2023 to evict some 25,000 gold miners from the Yanomami territory. With backing from the armed forces, the ...

 — BRASILIA, Brazil — Many Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a ...

 — Mining on the Novo River, Yanomami Indigenous Land, January 2022 What is the extent of the health crisis in Terra Yanomami? According to data from the Ministry of Health obtained by the agency sumauma, 570 children aged up to five died of preventable diseases in the Yanomami TI between 2019 and 2022, an increase of 29% compared to …

 — The Brazilian government must act to stamp out illegal gold mining that has caused a humanitarian crisis of hunger and disease in the Yanomami indigenous population, mining industry lobby Ibram ...

 — FILE - An airplane pilot who works in an illegal mine shows gold extracted from territory of the Indigenous Yanomami tribe in Alto Alegre, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 7, 2023. Yanomami leaders have …

 — Illegal gold mining in indigenous Yanomami territory, Brazil. Last update: 2023-07-18. FR CN IT ES TR AR EN. Illegal mining in Yanomami territory - Survival / Colin Jones. Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader - Survival / Fiona Watson. Illegal gold miners threat Yanomami peoples' livelihood. The Federal State appetite for the Amazon …

 — The Yanomami people are especially vulnerable to the environmental hazards brought upon them by gold mining for several factors: Their traditional subsistence consists of fishing, hunting, gathering, and subsistence crop cultivation, all of which are easily disrupted by an influx of people, machines, and noises;

 — Illegal gold miners were first present in Yanomami territory during the 1980s, but then were largely expelled. They have flooded back in recent years, attracted by high gold prices and urged on by former President Jair Bolsonaro. ... More recently, he openly championed mining in Indigenous lands and the integration of native peoples into …

 — The illegal gold mining taking place in the Yanomami reserve isn't an isolated affair. According to MapBiomas, a multidisciplinary network visualizing land use in Brazil through satellite ...

 — In the TI Yanomami, there was a peak in mining activities in the 1980s, during the first gold rush in the Amazon. After being launched by the Federal …

 — In April 2022, the Hutukara Yanomami Association published an investigation describing how illegal mining in the Yanomami reserve had nearly tripled over the past three years, destroying more than ...

 — Since the 1990s, there have been a number of studies that raised awareness about the negative health effects that illegal gold mining has had on the Yanomami population, which consists of about 30,000 people. These studies show gold mining can be linked to tuberculosis, malaria, mercury poisoning, and malnutrition.

 — Between 2017 and 2019 alone, 1,174 hectares (2,900 acres) of forest were lost due to gold mining in the Yanomami reserve; 2019 saw its highest deforestation rates of the last decade, at 418 ...

 — Illegal and destructive gold mining is growing on an alarming scale in Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY). CAFOD partners estimate that between 2018 and 2022, the area in TIY destroyed by mining …

 — An Yanomami man stands near an illegal gold mine during Brazil's environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima ...

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 — In summary, illegal gold mining in the TI Yanomami affects more than just the indigenous people, given that the mercury that is dumped into the rivers contaminates the fish in the region and can reach city residents, including those living in …

 — An increasing number of young Indigenous people in Brazil's Yanomami Indigenous Territory are leaving their communities behind and turning to illegal gold mining, lured by the promise of small ...

 — The government operations targeting illegal mining in Yanomami territory had some positive immediate impact, but it will take more than armed offensives to end the continued destruction of these prized Indigenous lands. Initially, the rapid decrease in the number of illegal mining sites in Yanomami territory was heralded as a win for Lula.

 — According to the Yanomami, illegal mining on their land has expanded by 30% in the last year, devastating the equivalent of 500 hectares.

 — Illegal and destructive gold mining is growing on an alarming scale in Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY). CAFOD partners estimate that between 2018 and 2022, the area in TIY destroyed by mining reached more than 5,000 hectares – equivalent to more than 7,000 football pitches.

 — The mysterious fate of a small Yanomami indigenous community in the northern Brazilian state of Roraima left much of the country puzzled, outraged, and keen for answers in recent weeks.. On April 28, in response to allegations that a 12-year-old Yanomami had been raped and murdered by gold miners after being taken from a …

 — An illegal gold mine on Yanomami land. Image courtesy of Rogério Assis / ISA. On 3 July, the First Regional Federal Court (TRF1), one of the most powerful judicial bodies in Brazil, ruled that ...

 — When Brazil's environmental authority busted an illegal gold mine inside the Yanomami Indigenous territory operated by the nation's most fearsome gang, they found …

 — Gold mining is the most popular type of mining conducted in Zimbabwe. It has a flourishing market ready to pay the greenback on demand. Popular gold mining towns include Kadoma, Bindura, …

 — Banner image: Illegal gold miners leaving Yanomami Indigenous territory in February. Image by Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress. Related reading: No new mining operations on Yanomami land after raids and ...

 — The mining poses a grave danger to the indigenous people. A study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2018 found that in some Yanomami villages ...

 — Felipe Finger, the head of Ibama's Special Inspection Group, displays confiscated gold during an operation against illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous land, at a farm in rural Boa Vista ...

 — The Yanomami come to Boa Vista to be treated for malaria, malnutrition, tuberculosis and skin diseases believed to be caused in many cases by illegal gold mining in their territory. (Raphael Alves ...

 — Ein Gramm Gold kostet in Deutschland derzeit 76 Euro – ein Rekord. Die Yanomami in Brasilien zahlen einen höheren Preis: Die Goldjagd tötet ihre Fische und …