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A wildcat gold miner holds a water hose used to break down land and create ravines to mine gold at an illegal mining camp in a protected reserve in the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, August 20, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau
A wildcat gold miner holds a water hose used to break down land and create ravines to mine gold at an illegal mining camp in a protected reserve in the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, August 20, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

Family men or forest destroyers? Meet the miners living off the Amazon’s gold

ITAITUBA, Brazil,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One man working deep in Brazil’s Amazon said he knows how to stop the illegal logging, gold mining, deforestation and fires plaguing the region: let President Jair Bolsonaro carry out his plans to develop the rainforest.

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