The Wider Image: Gold miners bring fresh wave of suffering

An Indigenous woman collects ants to eat by pushing a branch into an anthill, at the Auaris Base Hub, in Yanomami Indigenous land, Roraima state, Brazil, January 10, 2024. “Most of the miners had gone, but they are coming back,” Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, whose activism helped create the government-protected Yanomami territory in 1992, told Reuters. “Illegal mining is so bad for us.” REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino