The natives denounce open construction sites and new tracks. “They know when flights pass, where they are going and can notice a change in the flight route,” explains Estevão Senra, a researcher at ISA. “Brazilian indigenous people also exchange information with Venezuelan Yanomami.”
Smaller and smaller tracks. In the national territory, a track located in the Alto Catrimani region, north of Roraima, was recently identified. “It was a strategy that started at the end of the first half of 2023,” Senra says. In Venezuelan territory, a larger track has been identified in the Alto Orinoco. “Miners are intensifying their actions at the mouth of Venezuela’s main river.”
The Garimpeiros bypass traffic jams in the rivers. “Miners are trying to adapt to evade inspections. This was already happening, but Ibama detected increased airflow to bypass the river blockage,” said Jair Schmitt, Ibama’s director of Environmental Protection. “We noticed this from the movement of aircraft and intelligence information.”
“Effective” strategy against surveillance. According to Alisson Marugal, lawyer for the Federal Public Ministry of Roraima, mining has a high capacity for reorganization. “The government does not have an adequate strategy for these situations and we are calling for a new plan that addresses this new mining strategy.”
The government, unfortunately, has not managed to reformulate the disintrusion plan [retirada de garimpeiros] in light of these new circumstances and that’s why we went to court to ask for a new plan. Since October there has been a worrying cooling [das operações]hence the return of the miners, especially in the already deforested areas.
Alisson Marugal, MPF prosecutor in Roraima
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Air transport machinery, dredging and food pumps. Reports and images indicate that planes leave small runways nationwide loaded with food, equipment and even metals, such as cassiterite. “The planes leave early, as soon as it is light, and head to the border runways. They leave the materials there and can make trips nearby to distribute them,” says Senra.
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