Brazil airlifts starving Yanomami tribal people from jungle - BBC
WEBBrazil has airlifted 16 starving Yanomami tribal people to receive urgent treatment, after the government declared a medical emergency. The indigenous people live in a reserve in Brazil's...
Six months on, the Yanomami crisis continues amid rising violence
WEBJul 11, 2023 · In early April, 35-year-old Indigenous health worker Angelita Prororita Yanomami went missing near Boa Vista, the capital city of the northernmost Brazilian state of Roraima. Two months later, her ...
Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami …
WEB5 days ago · Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and ...
The Yanomami people lived in harmony with nature. Invaders …
WEBFeb 11, 2023 · Some 30,400 Yanomami live in the territory, and as they are largely isolated from the outside world, they are more vulnerable to common viruses.
Why Brazil's Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining
WEBJan 26, 2023 · Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency.
Reports of child starvation in Indigenous Brazilian ... - NBC News
WEBJan 24, 2023 · BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous...
Brazil declares emergency over deaths of Yanomami children …
WEBJan 22, 2023 · Brazil's ministry of health has declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country's largest indigenous reservation bordering Venezuela, following reports of children dying of...
Calls for action as Brazil Yanomami Indigenous people face crisis
WEB24 Jan 2023. Brazilian officials have said that the Yanomami Indigenous people are living in dire conditions, as illegal gold miners threaten them with violence and block the delivery of goods...
Why Brazil's Yanomami are being devastated by disease and gold …
WEBJan 29, 2023 · Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. On January 20, the federal government declared a public health ...
Mercury exposure is widespread among Yanomami tribe in ... - NBC News
WEBApr 4, 2024 · BRASILIA, Brazil — Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a...