A view of an illegal gold mine during a Brazilian government enforcement operation to combat illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest on Munduruku Indigenous land, in the municipality of Jacareacanga, Para state, Brazil November 12, 2024. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
JACAREACANGA, Brazil (Reuters) - The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has made Brazil's task of cracking down on wildcat mining in the Amazon far harder, environmental agents and police say.
The Munduruku territory, a reservation the size of Switzerland on the Tapajos river, a major Amazon tributary, has become a hot spot for illegal mining, which Brazilian law bans on Indigenous land.
