Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

 The Indigenous groups in the Tapajós region, in the eastern Brazilian part of the Amazon, also face complex problems. Both legal and illegal mining are expanding in the area, and health authorities are struggling to deal with rising infectious disease, mercury contamination and children dying from preventable causes, according to the health ministry’s data and recent research. An aggravating factor is the pending demarcation of various Indigenous territories.

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