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A shocking new report shows that luxury jewelery brands like Bulgari might
be sourcing gold through illegal mining on the Yanomami indigenous land in
the Amazon.
Sign here to make it impossible to ignore popular pressure and stop this
horror:

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John,

A shocking new report shows that luxury jewelry brands are sourcing gold
through illegal mining on the Yanomami people's land in the Amazon in
Brazil!

Illegal mining activities like this have resulted in the destruction of
the forest and the contamination of rivers with mercury. And it doesn't
stop there: the illegal gold diggers also brought violence and disease to
the region.

This news should make gold the new "blood diamonds" -- but brands Bulgari
and H. Stern are saying nothing, hoping to bury the story and make it go
away.

It's up to us to turn this report into a massive global news story and
ensure that luxury gold jewelry isn't coming at the Amazon forest's and
its people's expense. Add your name:

[ [link removed] ]Click to demand an end to 'Amazon blood gold'

The Yanomani lands are the largest indigenous reserve in Brazil. Illegal
deforestation there has increased by over 300% in the past 4 years. In
just the last year, two Yanomami children were killed by heavy machinery
used for illegal mining, while two more drowned while fleeing attacks by
illegal gold diggers.

Every minute, over three football fields of the Amazon rainforest, are
being lost, and Indigenous land occupied by illegal mining has increased a
staggering 495% over the past decade.

And as if illegal mining and deforestation aren’t bad enough, an
investigation by the Federal Public Ministry of Brazil showed how the gold
buying and selling sector is also linked to slave labour and money
laundering.

We have to push Bulgari and H.Stern to stop profiting from the Yanomami
tragedy, and this is the first step in the fight to free Brazil from
illegal gold mining — sign now:

[ [link removed] ]Click to demand an end to 'Amazon blood gold'

After massive pressure and persistence, our community has already forced
powerful multinationals like Hugo Boss and Apple to adopt concrete
measures in their supply chains to protect human rights. Let's keep
fighting together for a better world.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Flora, Vanessa and the entire Ekō team


[ [link removed] ]‘I’ll buy everything’: Yanomami gold is freely sold at Rua do
Ouro, Repórter Brasil, June 24th, 2021
[ [link removed] ]HStern, Ourominas and D’Gold: major buyers of illegal gold from TI
Yanomami G1, Jan 30th, 2023
[ [link removed] ]See the damages of two years of illegal mining on a indigenous land in
the Amazon (in Portuguese), The Intercept, Dec 4th 2021
[ [link removed] ]Brazil: Civil society names Bulgari, Tiffany and Rolex as companies
that do not provide complete data on the origin of the gold they use,
Business & Human Right Resource Centre, Feb 1st 2023

 

 

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