The NGO SOS Orinoco shared a map showing the surroundings of the Delgado Chalbaud military post of the National Guard, in the state of Amazonas, where there is “a landing strip used by the garimpeiros”
The NGO SOS Orinoco on Tuesday denounced “prohibited” mining activities in “protected territories” of the Amazonas state “with the support of the National Guard,” an activity “perpetrated” by “Brazilian garimpeiros (metal or precious stone prospectors).”
Through the social network XThe organization denounced that the National Guard “is dedicated to ‘garimpear’ (illegal mining)” in Amazonian territories “triplely” protected by Venezuelan law, where there are lands of the Yanomami indigenous people, national parks and biosphere reserves.
“We have counted (in the southeast of Amazonas) 261 hectares of intensive mining and 1,600 hectares deforested by April 2024, most of them associated (also) with mining,” the organization reported, while showing images of the impacted areas.
SOS Orinoco also shared a map showing the surroundings of the GN’s Delgado Chalbaud military post, where there is “a landing strip used by garimpeiros,” and recorded “the growth of mining between December 2022 and March 2024, totaling 100 hectares of mining operations today.”
The environmental organization criticized ‘Operation Fog’, which it described as a “media show.” This was an operation that was created in Amazonas -according to the National Armed Forces- “to protect natural spaces”, such as “national parks and monuments, forest and biosphere reserves.”
Last March, the FAN’s strategic operational commander, Domingo Hernández Lárez, reported that more than 7,000 people who were practicing illegal mining were evicted in the states of the region that make up the Venezuelan Amazon, Amazonas and Bolívar (south, bordering Brazil).
With information from EFE agency
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