The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

Nonprofit advocates said the loss of U.S. foreign aid would impede but not stop their efforts to protect the Amazon and the ...

Authorities in Brazil discovered an illegal mine in the heart of the Amazon rainforest - alleged criminals were mining for ...

Brazil’s federal government celebrated a decrease in deaths and the decline in gold mining two years after agents started to ...

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

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Illegal gold mining, driven by record-high global prices ... Açaí is harvested sustainably from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Amapá. Açaí makes up a key segment of the bioeconomy.

His single-propeller Cessna plane was loaded with more than 100 pounds of gold ... the Amazon. The haul, worth more than $4 million at today’s prices, had been pulled out of the rainforest ...

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled ... Peru – Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a half-dozen Peruvian military vehicles are rumbling along a dirt path that cuts through dense ...

In Brazil, USAID’s largest initiative is the Partnership for the Conservation of Amazon Biodiversity ... In a region vulnerable to illegal gold mining and drug-trafficking, the Roraima ...

Lula also warned that illegal mining is completely forbidden and will be fought by his government. “If there is gold in Roraima, in the indigenous land, that gold does not belong to anyone ...