Brazil cracks down as wildcat miners in the Amazon shift their operations

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil is fighting destructive wildcat gold mining as it spreads from Indigenous lands into government-protected conservation areas. Federal Police have joined the government's biodiversity conservation agency ICMBio on a series of recent operations to catch illegal gold miners and destroy their camps and equipment. Leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government has already been cracking down on mining on Indigenous reservations.