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'BRASILIA, March 21 (Reuters) - Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold
miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and
will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal
police's new environmental crimes division said Tuesday.
Police are setting up new Amazon bases and seeking international cooperation on
law enforcement in the region, including the development of radio-isotope
technology to prove the illegal origin of seized gold, Humberto Freire told
Reuters.
Freire is the director of the newly-created environment and Amazon department
of the federal police, marking what he called a new era in the battle against
environmental crime and in defense of indigenous people in the rainforest.
Adding to the urgency in the early months of President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva's term, the government in January declared a humanitarian crisis in
Yanomami territory. The territory had been invaded by thousands of gold miners
threatening communities with firearms, spreading malaria, polluting rivers and
scaring off wild game, which led to malnutrition and hundreds of deaths.
"We still have some pockets of miners who are holding out by hiding in some
areas, so we going through the Yanomami territory with a fine comb," Freire
said in an interview.
Enforcement operations supported by satellite imagery and aerial photography
have destroyed 250 miner camps - many of which were already deserted - and 70
dredging rafts, along with speed boats and planes, he said. Police have seized
some 4,500 liters of fuel and 1.2 kilos of gold, he added.
Police encountered and then released at least 805 miners and 94 boats on
rivers, but most fled before the eviction operation.'
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