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• ‘Our people are still suffering’: Brazil’s operations against illegal mining camps

  15-08-2023 17:52
  
  Ibama agent Hugo Loss says he and his team have neutralised mining equipment in Operation XapiriLike mechanised Valkyries, nine helicopters filled with armed men and women in camouflage uniforms swoop over dense forests and remote rivers – but this is not a scene from Apocalypse Now, it is a Brazilian government mission to forestall catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest.The aircraft from the country’s two main environmental agencies, Ibama and ICMBio, fly for hours above the Tapaj&oac
  
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• Driving out the rainforest invaders: crackdown on illegal mining brings hope after Bolsonaro era

  15-08-2023 17:52
  
  Ibama agent Hugo Loss says he and his team have neutralised mining equipment in Operation XapiriLike mechanised Valkyries, nine helicopters filled with armed men and women in camouflage uniforms swoop over dense forests and remote rivers – but this is not a scene from Apocalypse Now, it is a Brazilian government mission to forestall catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest.The aircraft from the country’s two main environmental agencies, Ibama and ICMBio, fly for hours above the Tapaj&oac
  
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• ‘You have to sacrifice your life’: the drug runners of Colombia’s rainforests

  15-08-2023 13:00
  
  With few job prospects, young men in the jungle borderlands with Brazil risk everything in a marijuana trade that ultimately bankrolls dissident armed groupsMoonlight seeps through the palm-thatch roof of the maloca, a circular communal house in the village of La Pedrera in southern Colombia. Sitting in the centre of the space, a shaman from the Murui ethnic group chants and hums, deep in concentration.The shaman passes around a white plastic container filled with green powder. Each of the young
  
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