Air Force will control Yanomami airspace

Indigenous peoples: different from each other, there are more than 400 thousand in the Amazon region, according to the institute

We are in the 21st century, but the diversity of indigenous peoples living in Brazil is still “ignored by the majority of Brazilians”, points out the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). In 2010, the Demographic Census investigated for the first time the number of ethnicities (communities defined by linguistic, cultural and social affinities). A significant part of them were found in the Amazon. O Curto News mapped the available data on this population, and helps you better understand the subject.

The decree was published this Tuesday (31) in Official Gazette.

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The Air Force Command will decide on the necessary actions to regulate and control the airspace “against all types of suspected illicit air traffic” carried out in the territory.

The text informs that “administrative police measures will be taken, such as interdiction of aircraft and equipment supporting illicit activities” which will be carried out by agents from the Federal Police, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) and other “bodies and entities of the federal public administration”.

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Access to Yanomami territory can only occur if provided for in a joint act published by the ministers of Health and Indigenous Peoples, “with a view to preventing and reducing the risk of transmission of diseases and other injuries”.

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The Ministry of Defense will provide intelligence data and logistical air transport to teams that will directly participate in the neutralization of aircraft and equipment related to illegal mining in Yanomami territory.

The Yanomami territory is almost 10 thousand kilometers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest Photo: Reproduction Twitter

The decree provides that federal authorities will be responsible for requisitioning goods, servers and services necessary for transporting teams.

The same will happen with the supply of drinking water; supply of food and clothing, opening or reopening of support posts from the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai) and basic health units from the Ministry of Health.

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(Source: Agência Brasil)

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