00:00Uncontacted indigenous people about to be contacted.
00:04In Colombia, yes, ladies and gentlemen, in the Colombian Amazon, very close to Brazil,
00:11There are some indigenous peoples who have been isolated from all of us and from many of our viruses,
00:16which have invaluable historical and cultural value, but are close to being contacted.
00:22They are the Yuripasé, and they have been protected thanks to a national natural park that is not very popular, the river
00:29Puree.
00:29But that may change.
00:30To put it in the words of the Amazonian Alliance for Reducing the Impacts of Gold Mining,
00:36We are facing a risk of the extinction of unique communities in the world.
00:42And gold is precisely the culprit behind this mess.
00:46Well, illegal gold mining, which is taking place in a section of the Puré River, is damaging Brazil.
00:51Don't you believe me?
00:52Look at these satellite images that clearly show how mining has been swallowing up the river and has been
00:58destroying the jungle.
00:59Not only with the jungle, in 2020 he kicked out the park rangers who were at the Puerto Franco headquarters.
01:05As if that wasn't enough, they burned it.
01:08Since then, these giant machines, which some call dredges, others dragons,
01:13They move through the river, stirring up its sediments and causing havoc.
01:17One of the most serious is an old acquaintance of Colombia, mercury.
01:21whose waste accumulates in the fish that you can guess who feeds on.
01:27Exactly, possibly indigenous communities.
01:29And the worst part, someone who knows very well what's happening there told us,
01:33The dredges now stay all year round, not just for one season like before.
01:38Now there are more and more of them.
01:40And although there were a couple of operations in 2025 by the Colombian and Brazilian Armed Forces,
01:44The garimpeiros, as the miners of Brazil are known, fix them and return to the river.
01:51After all, the international price of gold is sky high and can withstand anything.
01:56Look, they even destroy sections of jungle and allow mining,
02:01apparently financed by businessmen from neighboring Brazilian municipalities,
02:05according to the monitoring program of the Amazonian Andes,
02:08get closer and closer to uncontacted indigenous peoples.
02:12The new Colombian government faces a tremendous challenge.
02:16If you also don't want this to become just another case in the background,
02:20like so many others in Colombia,
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02:26And if you'd like to find out a little more,
02:28My colleague Catalina Zanabria and I wrote an article for the Amazon section of El Espectador.
02:34Visit it.
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