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Feb 5 • 08:01 UTC • 🇧🇷 Brazil • G1 (PT)

Indigenous people raise fish in tanks to ensure safe food after mining contaminates rivers in the Yanomami Territory

The Sikamabiu community in the Yanomami Indigenous Land is raising fish in tanks as a sustainable food source following mercury contamination from illegal mining that devastated local fish populations.

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