Yanomami

Brazil ousts almost all illegal gold miners from Yanomami Indigenous region

"We still have some pockets of miners who are holding out by hiding in some areas," says Humberto Freire of police's new environmental crimes division.

Brazil launches military operation to protect Indigenous Yanomami

Crack down begins against some 20,000 miners who Indigenous leaders say have set up illegal operations, raping and killing inhabitants, poisoning their water with mercury and ravaging forest they depend on for food.

'Genocide' in Amazon: Indigenous Brazilians resist mining intrusion

The Yanomami people suffer from mercury-poisoned water and degraded food sources caused by illegal gold mining.

Brazil prepares 'to confront' gold miners invading Yanomami lands

Operation against more than 20,000 wildcat miners is imminent, officials say, as anger mounts over humanitarian crisis in isolated Yanomami villages on the country's largest Indigenous reservation.

Dozens of Yanomami children hospitalised in Brazil

Authorities in Roraima state say 59 Indigenous children are currently being treated, 45 of them from Yanomami tribes, who are being decimated by disease and illegal mining in Amazon jungle.

Brazil official seeks eviction of armed gold miners from Yanomami region

Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba calls on military to act swiftly against illegal miners, saying 700 members of Indigenous community were going hungry due to invasion by 20,000 wildcat gold miners.