Outcry over deforestation as Suriname's agriculture plans come to light

Possible plans to develop large-scale agriculture in Suriname have sparked backlash from Indigenous communities, conservation groups and some members of parliament, who are concerned about deforestation of the Amazon and the fate of ancestral territories. Government documents, first published by Mongabay last year, showed that hundreds of thousands of hectares of Suriname’s primary forest might […]

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