Operation Omawe, promoted by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) and the Brazilian Institute for the Environment (Ibama), destroyed nine aircraft used by illegal mining in Yanomami indigenous land.
According to the bodies, the aircraft are used for logistical support for prospectors in transporting inputs and people.
“The precarious safety conditions found on the aircraft, totally at odds with ANAC requirements, added to the isolation of where they are located, allow agents to render them unusable”, says the note.
The prospectors in the region work, for the most part, in the illegal extraction of gold and cassiterite, an activity that makes rivers unusable due to mercury contamination, destroys forests and favors the spread of malaria among the native peoples.
Operation Omawe aims to weaken mining activities in Yanomami lands to help solve the humanitarian crisis in the indigenous area.
*Posted by Fernanda Pinotti
Source: CNN Brasil
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