“Just look at the audacity of these criminals. There was outrage as footage of the riverine gold rush spread on social media. But when you see a scene like that it makes you feel as though the Amazon has been thrust into this spiral of free-for-all. I was born here and I’ve seen many terrible things: so much destruction, so much deforestation, so many illegal mines. “It’s like a condominium of mining dredges … occupying pretty much the whole river.”Īguiar added: “I’ve been working in the Amazon for 25 years. “We’ve seen this kind of thing before in other places – but not on this scale,” Aguiar said of the hundreds of rafts he saw hoovering up the Madeira’s riverbed near the towns of Autazes and Nova Olinda do Norte. Dredging rafts operated by illegal miners on the Madeira river, Brazil.
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