Illegal mining destroyed 500 football fields worth of Brazilian indigenous land in 2020

 A new report has revealed that forest lost in Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY) to illegal mining in 2020 is equivalent to 500 football fields.

This represents an increase of 30 per cent of forest destruction to this indigenous land and has left huge trails of mud and toxic waste such as deadly mercury, which has poisoned water sources used by local indigenous communities.

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