Illegal goldminers in the Amazon have carved a road through Brazil’s biggest indigenous reserve

Miners are using the road to smuggle excavators into the protected Yanomami Indigenous territory

Boa Vista

Mucajaí

Iracema

Yanomami

Indigenous

Territory

Brazil

Branco

River

50 km

50 miles

Alto Alegre

Boa Vista

Yanomami

Indigenous

Territory

Miners are using the road to smuggle excavators into the protected Yanomami Indigenous territory

Cantá

Mucajaí

Iracema

Branco

River

Brazil

Caracaraí

50 km

50 miles