Standing firm

 According to Doto Takak Ire, president of the KABU Institute – a Kayapó Indigenous peoples’ association – illegal gold mining is creating “all sorts of problems” including:

• contaminating the land and its streams with mercury
• increasing people’s risk of having cancer and serious diseases
• escalating violence and threats against Indigenous communities, with illegal miners inciting violence and infighting among the communities
• illegal miners luring some Indigenous community members into supporting the mines with the false promise of large profits as the forest that sustains them is destroyed.
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