The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
ATBC 2008 - Gold Rush in the Guiana Shield
- Scientific Program (2,5M)
- Brochure front side (4M)
- Brochure back side (3M)
- Poster ATBC2008 (5M)
Gold Rush in the Guiana Shield
In this page, you can find various documents and links related to the recent gold rush in the Guianas, and the consequences for the environment and inhabitants.
Photos taken at Brownsberg Natural Park, Suriname. © Pierre-Michel Forget, MNHN, 2004.
Symposia at ATBC 2008
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Minding and mending mining in the tropics
- Hammond's presentation pdf
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Tropical forest monitoring with remote sensing across the globe
- Gond's presentation pdf
Media
Venezuela fights illegal gold camps deep in jungle by By Diego Ore, Reuters - 1 July 2010
High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela, mongabay.com - November 25, 2009
Illegal mining threatens forest, biodiversity, natives in French Guiana Europe's largest tropical rainforest invaded by gold miners, by Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com - December 19, 2006
Impact of Gold Rush
Bilan de l'impact de l'orpaillage en Guyane : une étude fondamentale by Alain Coppel, Valery Gond & Sébastien Allo pdf
Face à la ruée vers l'or en Guyane : un observatoire de l'activité minière by Pierre Joubert, Sébastien Linares & Valery Gond . pdf
All that glitters is not gold: Balancing conservation and development in Venezuela's frontier forests by Marta Miranda with Alberto Blanco-Uribe Q., Lionel Hernández, José Ochoa G., and Edgard Yerena. 1998. World Resources Institute
Causes and Consequences of a Tropical Forest Gold Rush in the Guiana Shield, South America by David S. Hammond, Valéry Gond, Benoit de Thoisy, Pierre-Michel Forget, and Bart P. E. DeDijn . Ambio
Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports by . PLoS ONE
Remote Sensing - Teledetection
Télédétection et aménagement du territoire : localisation et identification des sites d’orpaillage en Guyane française by Sébastien Linares, Pierre Joubert & Valery Gond . pdf - Web
Using remote sensing to combat illegal gold washing by Sébastien Linares, Pierre Joubert & Valery Gond. pdf
Contra los buscadores de oror clandestinos: la deledetección by Sébastien Linares, Pierre Joubert & valery Gond. pdf
Contre l'orpaillage clandestin : la télédétecion by Valery Gond & Christine Brognoli. pdf
La géomatique, outil de surveillance de l'orpaillage clandestin en Guyane française by Valery Gond, Jocelyn Bluteau, Serge-Olivier Kotchi, Bakaré Bafetégué Koné et Sébastiern Linares. pdf
About Mercury pollution and contamination
Solidarité Guyane Web
Mercury biomagnification in the food web Web
Conservation
Or vert contre or Jaune. Quel avenir pour la Guyane ? UICN -GEPOG. Web
Communiqué - Conseil scientifique - Parc National Amazonie - pdf - web
Communiqué - WWF - pdf
Illegal goldmining in French Guiana (WWF press release)- pdf
