Operation targets illegal gold-miners in Yanomami’s

The Yanomami live in the Amazonian rainforest in northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. They depend on their forest for food and shelter and have voiced their outrage at the miners’ invasion.
But despite the Yanomami’s appeals, many miners continue to operate on their land, destroying the forest and polluting the rivers with mercury. The uncontacted Yanomami are particularly vulnerable to the diseases transmitted by the miners.
Last month the Yanomami protested over the lack of medicines and health care, forcing the Ministry of Health to change the official in charge of indigenous health care in Roraima state.
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