2.9K views · 38 reactions | What's it like for an uncontacted tribe to see outsiders for the first time? Members of the Yanomami tribe give their account of first contact. Right now, there is an illegal mining camp very near a group of uncontacted Yanomami; posing a profound danger in terms of possible violent encounters and lethal diseases against which they have no resistance. | Survival International | Facebook

This devastating footage shows illegal gold mining in the Yanomami rainforest. It's destroying the Amazon, polluting the rivers & spreading #coronavirus that could decimate the tribe. Sign their petition now: https://foragarimpoforacovid.org/ ✊🏹 #ForaGarimpoForaCovid #MinersOutCovidOut | Survival International

20 reactions · 13 shares | Listen to Maurício Yanomami, #Indigenous leader & health worker from Ixima village. "When there is mining, the animals we eat, the fish, the water... everything will be contaminated... The earth is a human being too, it feels pain. The earth needs peace, like us". #ForaGarimpo #SOSYanomami | Survival International | Facebook