The Federal Police of Brazil destroyed 10 camps dedicated to the illegal minery in the state of Amazon (north) and applied fines of 4.5 million reais (about 937,000 dollars or 865,000 euros) to those responsible.
The final balance, collected by the state news service Agencia Brasil and which had begun to be partially disclosed since Friday, indicated that the action of the so-called Environmental Public Security Task Force was carried out in the Urapadi jungle.
In the camps located in the municipality of Maués, 267 kilometers from Manaus, the regional capital, 13 hydraulic excavators, 9 all-terrain motorcycles, 61 tents, 16 generators, 20 pump motors, 7 dredges and 9 firearms were confiscated. fire.
The police action is carried out after the one that took place in the neighboring state of Roraima, also on the border with Venezuela and in which almost all of the 20,000 illegal miners who were on the Yanomami indigenous land were expelled by the authorities.
The Urapadi Jungle National Park was established in 2016 along with four other environmental conservation units between the Madeira and Tapajós river basins, in an area with endemic birds and monkeys, some in danger of extinction.
In addition, the region is home to 800 species of birds, almost half of those registered in the entire country, and fish, some of which have not yet been identified by science and whose species are also endangered by mercury contamination from illegal mining in the rivers. .
Source: EFE
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