Thousands of indigenous people demonstrated in traditional guise in Brasilia against the president’s plans to commercially exploit their land.

 This practice threatens the people who live there and the nature that surrounds them. Because the mercury used to separate gold from the sediment poisons the rivers, contaminates the soil.

According to the WWF, 70 percent of the mercury ends up in the atmosphere, 30 percent in the soil and in the water. And because the indigenous people eat fish and fruit, the mercury ultimately reaches them – and endangers their health.

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