The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

ATBC 2008 - Gold Rush in the Guiana Shield

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  • 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

     

     

    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

    Maps : pdf - Web

    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 Swenson JJ, Carter CE, Domec J-C, and Delgado CI. 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