Campaigners in Brazil use drones to document work of self-defence teams trying to stop environmental destruction caused by illegal mining
he medicine man flashed a mischievous grin as he dabbed his warriors’ eyeballs with a feather soaked in malagueta pepper and watched them grimace in pain. “They’re going into battle and this will protect them,” José Delfonso Pereira said as he advanced on his next target with a jam jar of his chilli potion.
Activists at the Indigenous Education and Culture Centre at the entrance to the Raposa Serra do Sol territory for an assembly to discuss the future of their land.truncheons as they prepared to journey down the Maú River in search of illegal miners; others held bows and arrows adorned with the black feathers of curassow birds. Marco Antônio Silva Batista carried a drone.
An Indigenous patrol member on Brazil’s border with Guyana in an attempt to film a gold mine polluting the Maú River.“It’s dangerous work and we suffer a lot when we’re out in the field,” said Batista, one of about 26,000 inhabitants of Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil’s second most populous Indigenous territory. “But it really gives me strength me because I’m showing the reality of our lives to the world.
Raposa Serra do Sol’s creation in 2005, to the fury of wealthy rice farmers whose henchmen rampaged through one community burning homes, a church and a school.But Batista had no illusions that Lula’s return to office would miraculously eradicate the threats facing his mineral-rich home, on which diamond and gold miners have long preyed, as well as drug and gun runners.
Lauriano Afonso da Silva, a 61-year-old activist, with Jedeão Pereira Batista, 21, shows off the wooden spear he uses to guard his Indigenous community.By early afternoon, the GPVTI activists were powering down the Maú River, which Guyana calls the Ireng, in aluminium canoes. Dark clouds loomed on the horizon above grassy, boulder strewn slopes inhabited by mountain lions, red hawks and margays. The illegal miners made their presence felt through plastic“We see miners as the enemy.
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