In 1992, Sydney Possuelo, then the head of Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai, led an operation to evict thousands of ...
Illegal mining activities have caused socio-environmental problems, mainly due to the contamination of rivers with mercury ...
By Lucas Berti The Brazilian Constitution bans illegal mining on Indigenous lands under any circumstances. But the high ...
The shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami tribe of the Brazilian Amazon describes the culture conflicts his people have faced in Western industrial society and global politics, issuing a plea for the ...
FILE - In this image provided by IBAMA, Brazil's Environmental Agency, a Starlink internet unit produced by Elon Musk's company is seized from an illegal mining pit in a remote part of the Brazilian ...
Brazil's then Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida delivers a speech during an interministerial visit to address the ...
ATALAIA DO NORTE, State of Amazonas — Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. They were met with gunfire, and the ...