Brazil readies task force to expel miners from Yanomami lands, officials say Brazil is preparing a task force of armed forces, police and government agencies to expel illegal gold miners who invaded the Yanomami indigenous reservation, officials said on Tuesday.
Germany pledges millions to help Brazil protect Amazon rainforest
German minister says Brazil’s new government offers ‘great chance’ to protect rainforest after widespread destruction.
Why Brazil's Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency.
Why Brazil's Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency
Brazil opens investigation into 'genocide' of Yanomami Indigenous peoples
Brazilian federal police are investigating a "genocide" against the Yanomami people after it emerged that nearly a hundred children from the Indigenous group had died, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
Brazil airlifts starving Yanomami tribal people from jungle
The government declares a medical emergency and ex-president Bolsonaro is accused of "genocide".
Brazil official says Yanomami region looks like 'concentration camp'
Brazil's military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said on Tuesday, urging
Calls for action as Brazil Yanomami Indigenous people face crisis
Indigenous communities in the Amazon have come under siege as business interests violently expand their operations.