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Revealed: Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve

Aerial photos from reconnaissance mission reveal effort to smuggle excavators into Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory.

Amazon rainforest is the Wild West for illegal gold miners
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Brazil′s Amazon rainforest has become the Wild West for illegal gold miners

Unregulated mining is causing catastrophic deforestation, pollution and conflict on indigenous land. A newly proposed bill could "open the floodgates."

The elite soldiers protecting the Amazon rainforest
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The elite soldiers protecting the Amazon rainforest

The Amazon is at risk from mining in French Guiana and it is the French Foreign Legion's job to protect it.
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