💰 Brazil evicts miners from Yanomami territory, prepares for more removals

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BRASILIA, March 21 (Reuters) - Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal police's new environmental crimes division said Tuesday. Junior Hekurari, head of the local indigenous health council, estimated that 85% of the gold miners had left or been forced out of the reservation the size of Portugal, which extends along Brazil's northern border with Venezuela. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays

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