“We are considering ways to tackle this problem, improve inspections, advance legislation and prevent this illegal gold from continuing to circulate and therefore from being exported,” says Flavio Ottoni Penido, president director of the Brazilian Mining Association. As long as nothing is done, traditional peoples living in the Amazon will continue to succumb to the destruction of their forests, the contamination of their rivers by mercury, and the division of their villages.
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