The UN is being urged to put pressure on Brazil's president to stop mining.

Good morning. You are listening to the Marketplace Morning Report and we're coming to you live

from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. So when Brazil's President

Lula de Silva came into power last year he accused his predecessor, Jarbosonaro,

of carrying out a genocide against Brazil's indigenous peoples.

Now, indigenous leaders are asking the UN to put pressure on Lula

to stop mining on their Amazon rainforest lands.

The BBC's America's editor, Leonardo Rasha, reports.

What they said basically, they sounded quite forceful in their statements,

is that their communities, the Kayapoz, the Anomami and and the Mundracus, that the children are still dying of preventable diseases,

that they are still being attacked by thousands of illegal gold miners who are still living in their lands and basically taking gold from there and all the resources as well.

And they say the rivers are polluted by mercury, this highly toxic metal that's used to basically to separate gold

from the sand, so the situation hasn't changed that much and they said the UN

should put pressure on the Lula government so that he can do more. I think it's much

harder to tackle illegal mining than he thought it was. He's also under pressure to

balance the budgets and they've been cut to the government

budget included the environment budget and there are other complications as well

the increasing and worrying presence of criminal gangs.

Now a lot of these illegal miners are working for the Pécé.

It's the first command of the capital is the biggest criminal gang in Brazil.

So it's a lot easier to say that you're going to do them to do it and it takes time.

Leonardo Rasha there. Now let's do the numbers.

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