Brazil Plans to Allow Mining in Amazonian Indigenous Reserves
- Government will send bill to Congress later this month
- Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque says indigenous support idea
Amazon rainforest stands in this photograph taken near Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas state, Brazil.
Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
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Brazil is pushing ahead with plans to allow mining in the indigenous reserves of the Amazon rain forest and will send a bill to Congress later this month to regulate the activity, according to the country’s minister for mines and energy.
The Brazilian constitution permits the extraction of raw materials from the reserves but a lack of regulation has resulted in widespread wildcat mining across the region, Bento Albuquerque, a Navy admiral, told Bloomberg News in an interview in Brasilia.