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Gold mining in the Amazon tropical rainforest
The story of the arrival of gold mining in the tropical rainforest in Venezuela near the Amazon river in the 1980s which led to a loss of habitat and land. The clip explores the effects of this environmental change on the local indigenous tribe, the Sanema peoples of the Yanomami tribe.
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