Many in Brazil were left wondering how the public health emergency gripping the Yanomami indigenous population could materialise so quickly, but this is no sudden disaster.
abc.net.au/news/brazil-yanomami-being-decimated-by-disease-mining/101904492Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.
They provide food for themselves by hunting, gathering, fishing, and growing crops in large gardens cleared from the forest.The army has began flying food kits into Yanomami territory.Illegal gold miners were first present in Yanomami territory during the 1980s, but then were largely expelled. Their numbers surged to 20,000 during Mr Bolsonaro's administration, according to estimates from environmental and Indigenous rights groups.Miners destroy the habitat of animals that the Yanomami hunt, and occupy fertile land that the Yanomami use to farm. The miners also process ore with mercury that poisons the rivers that the Yanomami depend upon for fish.
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