What Díaz saw in his village is not an isolated case. Throughout the Amazon, the biodiverse forest that occupies 40 percent of South America, skyrocketed gold prices, which have increased 35 percent this year, sharpened the “gold rush” that has been destroying Indigenous lands for years, a new report found. “I’ve been working with [Indigenous communities] for over 15 years,” says Díaz, who’s also the general coordinator of COICA, the biggest Indigenous organization in the region. “We [have] never faced a crisis like this. It feels like this is an attempt to exterminate us.”
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