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Brazil evicts gold miners from Amazon rainforest

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 says.

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Brazil evicts gold miners from Amazon rainforest

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