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Dirty political games : Suriname is selling its gold and timber – at the cost of tribal land rights | Global development

Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging – but has the country’s claim to fame as the most forested in the world already been fatally undermined?<br>

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Suriname is selling its gold and timber – at the cost of tribal land rights

The full title of this article is “‘Dirty political games’: Suriname is selling its gold and timber – at the cost of tribal land rights.” Bram Ebus (in Pokigron, Suriname) reports for The Guardian. All photographs by Bram Ebus. He writes, “Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging…

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farmlandgrab org | Outcry over deforestation as Suriname s agriculture plans come to light

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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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Indigenous Groups Use Satellite Data to Fight Deforestation | World Resources Institute

Free sites like Global Forest Watch and Landmark use satellites and data to track deforestation in near-real time. Indigenous and local communities are increasingly using tools like this to monitor illegal deforestation and take legal action.

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