YANOMAMI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil is losing the upper hand in its battle to save the Yanomami Indigenous people, who are dying from flu, malaria and malnutrition brought into their ...

Illegal mining causes deforestation and pollutes water sources in Brazil's Amazon. Brazil’s Federal Police detected no new illegal mines on Yanomami territory for the first time since monitoring began ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Government efforts to evict several thousand illegal miners from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory have so far been insufficient, as organized ...

Yanomami, pictured in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas in 2012, number around 27,000 in Brazil – Copyright POOL/AFP Francisco Seco Brazil said Monday it would ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Police action will not suffice to defend Yanomami territory in the Amazon from illegal gold miners, and Brazil's government must throw its full weight into defending the ...

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

A Yanomami man is pictured in a 2019 photo standing near an illegal gold mine on Indigenous land in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters) Communities of the ...

ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Armed government officials with Brazil’s justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing ...

Handout file photo taken on May 27, 2021 released by the Brazilian Presidency showing President Jair Bolsonaro (C) watching an indigenous celebration – Copyright US ...