Brazilian Police Destroy 10 Illegal Mining Camps in the Amazon

The brazilian police destroyed 10 camps dedicated to illegal mining in the state of Amazon (north) and applied fines of 4.5 million reais (about 937,000 dollars or 865,000 euros) to those responsible, as reported this Sunday.

The final balance, collected by the state news service Agency Brazil and that it had begun to be partially disclosed since Friday, indicated that the action of the call Environmental Public Safety Task Force It was done in the jungle urapadi.

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In the camps located in the municipality of maues267 kilometers from Manaus, the regional capital, 13 hydraulic excavators, 9 all-terrain motorcycles, 61 tents, 16 generators, 20 pump motors, 7 dredges and 9 firearms were confiscated.

The police action is carried out after the one that took place in the neighboring state of Roraimaalso bordering Venezuela and in which almost all of the 20,000 illegal miners who were on indigenous land Yanomami They were expelled by the authorities.

He Urapadi Jungle National Park It was established in 2016 together with four other environmental conservation units between the Madeira and Tapajós river basins, in an area with endemic birds and monkeys, some of which are in danger of extinction.

In addition, the region is home to 800 species of birds, almost half of those registered in the entire country, and fish, some of which have not yet been identified by science and whose species are also endangered by mercury contamination from illegal mining in the rivers. .

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Source: Elcomercio

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