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Another mine threatening biodiversity in the tropics
Rhett Butler from Mongabay.com reports that "One of the world's largest nickel mines will have adverse impacts on a threatened and biologically-rich forest in Madagascar, say conservationists." After Nickel mine in New Caledonia, Bauxite and Gold mines in South America, and others in Western and Central Africa, it is evident that mines are becoming a major threat to tropical biodiversity, either terrestrial or aquatic, neither does really help development of population and countries on the long term despite huge investment. "The $3.8 billion mining project, operated by Canada's Sherritt, will tear up 1,300 to 1,700 hectares of primary rainforest that houses nearly 1,400 species of flowering plants, 14 species of lemurs, and more than 100 types of frogs. Many of the species are endemic to the forest." Countdown 2010 : Who can really believe that diversity loss will stop by 2010 ? More at Mongabay.com