“For us, wealth is food, health and peace”: Indigenous leaders bring Amazon voices to Europe – Green Peace
Jun 22, 2026
“We are dying silently. Without knowing it, our mothers are feeding their babies with breast milk contaminated by mercury.”
Standing before representatives of the Dutch government, Alessandra Korap Munduruku described a reality that rarely reaches ministerial offices in Europe. While the price of gold rises and the world debates trade, investment and global supply chains, Indigenous communities in the Amazon live every day with the impacts of expanding soy production, cattle ranching and illegal gold mining: contaminated rivers, destroyed forests, violence and a public health crisis that threatens entire generations.
