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Itaituba municipality, Pará state - Amazon Rainforest region, Northern Brazil. August 25, 2020.
Gold miner armed with a shot-gun, protects his mining site, at its entrance, close to Crepori River. Criminal groups are illegally exploring this area, a indigenous land protected by law -Munduruku indigenous people's land. For the past thirty years, the Crepori river has been exploited in search of gold in a crescent level. As the river is an important tributary of Tapajós river (one of the biggest Amazon basin river), environmentalists concerns are focused on the high level of damage this illegal mining is causing to Amazon basin and Amazonia biome. photo and text by CAIO GUATELLI
Gold miner armed with a shot-gun, protects his mining site, at its entrance, close to Crepori River. Criminal groups are illegally exploring this area, a indigenous land protected by law -Munduruku indigenous people's land. For the past thirty years, the Crepori river has been exploited in search of gold in a crescent level. As the river is an important tributary of Tapajós river (one of the biggest Amazon basin river), environmentalists concerns are focused on the high level of damage this illegal mining is causing to Amazon basin and Amazonia biome. photo and text by CAIO GUATELLI
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- CAIO GUATELLI
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- AMAZON DEFORESTATION, Gold Exploitation in the Amazon
