The Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
A new Scheme for Mining development in French Guiana has been published. When the President Nicolas Sarkozy rejected the Iamgold Mine project at Kaw Mountain in February 2008, he engaged himself to define a new scheme for gold mining development that will respect the biodiversity richness ("définir le cadre d’une exploitation de l’or respectueuse des richesses de la biodiversité"). The report (in french) of the Prefet Yves Mansillon is now available at Ministry of Ecology website. pdf.