Suriname and Guyana aim for sustainable goals eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 21 March 2023– With 85% of its territory covered in dense forests that remove about 154 million tons of CO2 every year, Suriname and Guyana are automatically catapulted to where most of the world hopes to be by 2050. Guyana Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, stressed the…
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Should Bolsonaro stand trial in the Hague eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 17 March 2023– The Amazon is no stranger to crises. And the Santo Antonio hospital in Boa Vista is no exception to the rule. It proves the point. For almost a decade its staff have been dealing with the fallout from the humanitarian collapse in neighbouring Venezuela,…
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Victimizing indigenous peoples eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 16 March 2023 — Increasingly, Indigenous territories are being targeted for carbon offset schemes. Protected Areas – which usually lead to evictions and violence against local people – are now being justified by claims about their potential to ‘store’ carbon. The resulting carbon ‘credits’ can then be sold to polluters, like…
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Guyana has received an over $1.1 billion (€ 5 million) grant from the European Union to maintain its forest and natural resources, as well as strengthen sustainable development specifically in Amerindian communities. eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, March 16th 2023– President, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Deputy Secretary General of European Union Action Service, Helena Konig signed the billion-dollar…
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eyesonsuriname According to a report issued Monday March 14th of this year by the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the Annual Mapping Project of Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas) in partnership with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Amazon biome concentrated 90% of its areas with fires, representing 487,000 hectares. In…
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This is a short video of John Goedschalk telling the story of BioTara
Amsterdam, March 1st 2023– Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva was joined by US Presidential Envoy John Kerry when she announced on Tuesday that the government of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva was creating a working group to tackle the effects of climate change by focusing on the fight against deforestation in the Amazon and the…
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Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/arts/design/brazil-yanomami-indigenous-andujar-photographs-shed.html?smid=em-share
Five million euros eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 8 Feb 2023 — The European Union has approved a grant of ten million euros for the project ‘Sustainable Forest Livelihood for communities of Guyana and Suriname’. The protection and sustainable use of the Amazon rainforest in Suriname and Guyana is the main goal of this project.The intention is that…
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Causing Death and Destruction and Desitution [ = extreme poverty ]Brazilians guilty of polluting Suriname ?? Amsterdam, 7 feb 2023 –Brazil’s Minister for Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara described the presence of illegal mining (known locally as “garimpo”) in the Yanomami Indigenous Land as destructive, Agencia Brasil reported Monday. The official spent Sunday night at the…
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