llegal miners extract billions in Amazon gold despite Brazil crackdown, Greenpeace finds | World News
3 min readDelhiMay 29, 2026 05:02 PM IST Billions of dollars worth of gold is still being extracted illegally from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, a study by nonprofit watchdog Greenpeace found, despite efforts by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to crack down on wildcat mining. Lula pledged upon taking office in 2023 to eliminate illegal gold…