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Satellite internet service’s antennas are everywhere, from illegal mining sites
to isolated Indigenous villages
The helicopter swooped into one of the most inaccessible corners of the Amazon
rainforest. Brazilian special forces commandos leaped from its metal skids into
the caiman-inhabited waters below.
Their target, lurking in the woodland along Brazil’s Bóia River, was a hulking
steel mining dredge, caught red-handed as it drilled into the riverbed,
pulverising it in search of gold.
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