Government keeps 3,500 illegal mining requests in the Legal Amazon in its database

A new version of the interactive panel Amazônia Minada (Mined Amazon) shows that the National Mining Agency (ANM) has 3,500 mining applications that overlap, totally or partially, with Indigenous Lands (TIs) and fully protected Conservation Units (UCs) in the Legal Amazon region. Despite being illegal, the federal autarchy continues to allow the requests to be processed. This is seen by analysts as a demonstration of leniency with mining and political pressure for changes in the legislation.

The platform, a partnership between InfoAmazônia, Amazon Watch and the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil Network, collects data from the ANM database on a daily basis and cross-references it with the boundaries of the indigenous land and conservation units of full protection in the Amazon region, identifying which requests overlap or touch on protected areas.