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A traditional way of life forever being altered by miners and loggers. Rival lula has promised to end illegal deforestation and mining. But is he really the man to save the amazon . Perhaps this is one of the most critical president ial elections we have ever had in brazil. As brazilians go to the polls, will who wins decide the future of the rainforest . We travelled to brazils Yanomami Territory, right up on the border with venezuela. Its the Worlds Largest indigenous reserve home to nearly 30,000 people who live as hunter gatherers, as well as tens of thousands of illegal miners, a number t...

But also increasingly vulnerable. this woman is malnourished and dehydrated. the health centre's become a field hospital on the front line of illegal mining. there are new cases every day — old and young. nobody escapes this scourge. outside, a makeshift ward is full of patients with malaria — the yanomami sick. marilena is one of them.