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France Faces Obstacles to Preserve Amazon Forest in French Guyana
Region suffers from illegal mining and expansion of agriculture activities
Aug.29.2019 1:24PM
Lucas Neves
Phillippe Watanabe
French President Emmanuel Macron positioned himself as a leader sensitive to the environmental cause, but activists also criticize France's management of the French Amazon in French Guyana.
The forest covers about 95% of this French department of 296,000 inhabitants, which borders Amapá. There, one of the most controversial extraction projects today is the Golden Mountain, which would potentially occupy 800 hectares (8 km²) in northwestern Guyana.
The operation of the Russian-Canadian Gold Mountain joint venture envisions the use of 46,500 tonnes of highly toxic cyanide and 57,000 tonnes of explosives to extract 85 tonnes of gold in 12 years.
In early 2019, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination urged France to reopen the public consultation on the mega-enterprise and to take into account the reluctance of local indigenous people.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2019/08/france-faces-obstacles-to-preserve-amazon-forest-in-french-guyana.shtml