Yanomami denounce illegal gold miners
Two Yanomami Indian communities have written to the Brazilian government, denouncing the invasion of their land by illegal gold miners.
Two Yanomami Indian communities have written to the Brazilian government, denouncing the invasion of their land by illegal gold miners.
Yanomami and Yekuana Indians from two communities have denounced the Brazilian government’s attempts to persuade them to accept large-scale mining on their land.
The acclaimed Channel 4 current affairs series, ‘Unreported World’, is to broadcast a documentary tomorrow exposing the devastating effects of illegal goldmining on the land of the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.
Yanomami Indian leaders in Brazil have claimed that a project to open Indigenous land for mining would ‘bring death’ to their tribe.
A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.
More than a thousand illegal goldminers have invaded the land of the Yanomami Indians in Brazilian Amazonia.
A rancher who is illegally occupying land within the Yanomami Indigenous territory in Brazil has threatened to kill renowned Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa.
Brazilian shaman Davi Yanomami delivered a letter to the German Chancellor’s office this week, urging the German government to sign the key international law on tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169.