Dredge for gold comes into the Juruá river, and care about the residents
The boat was caught in the cities of the Juruá, Carauari, and Itamarati, Amazonas; the organizations had reported the case to the authorities of the state and federal courts.
The activity of gold-miners went back to worrying about people living in the region of the Middle Early in the Amazon region. On the morning of the 16th of February, with a dredge from the site of a large scale has been spotted up the rio Juruá, crossing the counties of Early, and Carauari, one of the regions which are conserved in the brazilian Amazon. On the evening of the 26th of February in the same boat has been sighted in the town of Itamarati. The case was reported to the Public Prosecutor’s office (MPF), and the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama).
The servers of the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), with the support of the Police, the Military, explored, following a complaint, the ferry on the day, the 19th of February, in the urban area of the municipality of Carauari (AM). Upon request by the ICMBio, the person responsible for the vessel had a License to operate issued by the Institute of Environmental Protection of the state of Amazonas (IPAAM), thereby authorizing mining for gold in the city of Itamarati (AM). However, it servers in the ICMBio, they found that all the kitchen equipment and tools are found in the vessel that are inconsistent with the activities of the study, and were commonly used in mining.
Proceedings of the applications of the mining operations of gold-miners in the region in the Early they are in the process of approval with the National Agency of Mining (ANM). But, according to the information available in the system, the agency, and none of them are allowed up to the present time. Mineral exploration in the region and is, therefore, an illegal activity.
On the face of it, the Forum, in the Territory of the Average Non-Forum (TMJ), a collective of public and private organizations that are committed to the preservation and sustainable development of the region in the Medium-Early, and filed on the 21st day of February, in a letter of complaint directed to the MINISTRY, and Ibama, asking you to “act immediately, and tightness of the bodies of control and supervision in order to prevent the occurrence of serious harm to or irreversible damage to the environment, health and safety and that of the indigenous peoples and traditional communities, present, and future generations to live (all) and live the life that is produced in the Juruá river.”
The members of the forum believe that miners can take advantage of the downtime of the servers of the Ibama and ICMBio, to make the practice illegal. “The urgency is evident in the fact that the Ibama and ICMBio blocked in the exercise of his or her activities outside of work, especially surveillance, as required in that case. The IPAAM, on the other hand, it has a base of operations in these cities. Therefore, the environmental monitoring to be severely impaired,” says the stretch of the report.
The risks of the mining is illegal
The site is illegal, can have severe consequences on the environment, biodiversity and human health, in addition to undermine the activities of the sustainable use of natural resources to generate income, and they are the mainstay of the economy and food security of indigenous people, and indigenous people.
According to the Calculator, the Impact of the Gold rush, the organisation of the civil society in the CSF, in partnership with the Federal Public Prosecutor’s office, the raft of gold-miners, which is in Early may generate in the course of a year in environmental damage as a valued 14.5 million pounds, the equivalent of a 40-thousand dollars per day of operation. The impact refers to the silting up of the river, and mercury poisoning. In addition to this, the unit is estimated that approximately 873 people, it can be contaminated with mercury, generating a variety of health problems, such as heart disease, and loss of IQ.
The third attempt
The other two attempts to invade the mining illegal to have taken place in June, and in October 2022, when the ferry garimpeiras were found traveling and working in the region. At the time, the leaders of the extractive industries have been threatened, and the case has been widely reported by the news media in national and international markets.
In this episode, the trade in illegal not to prosper, thanks to the coordination of the civil society, and the acting for the institution. In November, in the year 2022, following the complaint filed by the Forum for TMJ, the agency and the state Police, with the support of the ICMBio and the Military Police, set fire to the raft of gold-miners, which dragava illegally in the rio Juruá.