2024-07-19 10:53:39
(ANSA) – BRASILIA, JULY 19 – In the first half of 2024, illegal mining in Yanomami Land, Brazil, increased by 6%, despite emergency measures adopted by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: this is according to a Greenpeace report compiled with satellite data.
Between January and June of this year, miners destroyed nearly 170 hectares of vegetation in the indigenous ethnic group’s reserve, a number that is close to the total devastated in 2023, according to the NGO’s data. The Yanomami, which extends between the states of Roraima and Amazonas, is the largest indigenous reserve in the South American giant.
“The fact that miners have managed to continue opening up new areas in indigenous lands in the Amazon shows that the responses we are giving to this problem have been insufficient,” said Jorge Dantas, a member of Greenpeace’s Indigenous Peoples’ Front.
The environmental NGO also detected the presence of invaders in the municipalities of São Gabriel da Cachoeira and Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, near the Pico da Neblina National Park, a region where the Indians develop ecotourism. (ANSA).
2024-07-19 10:53:39