New gold rush threatens indigenous havens in Brazil’s Amazon

PYKANY: Indigenous chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire is once again preparing to lead a group of warriors to chase wildcat gold miners away from his people’s territory in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Wearing a red feather headdress, Bepdjo told AFP of rising tensions with intruders in the Bau Indigenous Territory in Para state, four years after his people expelled almost 200 prospectors. “The miners are stubborn. They enter by any means. Because today the price of gold is very high,” Bepdjo, 45, told AFP in Pykany, a village of his Kayapo people in a territory neighboring Bau.

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