RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s Defense Ministry on Thursday suspended operations by environmental agents acting against illegal miners on an indigenous reservation in the Amazon, saying it was acting at the request of Munduruku tribe members who wanted mining on their land.
The raid by environmental protection agency Ibama began on Wednesday, destroying excavators and water pumps used by wildcat miners prospecting for gold on rivers inside the reservation in Pará state.
Indigenous organizations have denounced the deforestation and poisoning of rivers caused by illegal miners, who have invaded reservations in growing numbers encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro’s . . .
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