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Cayenne fishmarket. Snapper: 6 euros 50.
“Are you the one who caught it, or did you buy it?"
The seller hesitates before answering: "I bought it. From Cogumer.”
Cogumer and Abchée are the two companies with which the Venezuelan fishermen have contracts. They buy their snappers for between 2.80 and 3 dollars for...
Monday9 April2012
By C. Aubinais et Mathilde Bachelet
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Hugo El loco
Wikileaks reveals the astounding and unexpected information that liberal democracies do not like Hugo Chávez! Alvaro Uribe, the former Colombian President, compared him to Hitler, whilst Jean-David Lévitte, a diplomatic adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, said the Venezuelan president was "mad".
The expert was right. You have to be completely...
Monday9 April2012
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Whilst man has not yet settled the question to his satisfaction, for the howler monkey it is clearly essence which precedes existence. The character and innermost nature of the red howler are as they are, and it is a placid monkey.
We like to think that we have a certain degree...
9 April 2012
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Overfishing: worldwide depletion of fish stocks
Pessimistic models predict a catastrophic drop in stocks.
After a period of strong growth after the Second World War, fish production has stagnated around the 90 million tonne mark over the past fifteen or so years, and this despite technological progress and research into new stocks...
Monday9 April2012
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At the break of dawn, and amidst many multicoloured wooden two-mast tapouilles facing the Mahury, we get on board the launch to Grand Connétable island nature reserve. Today we are going to visit the largest marine nature reserve in France's overseas territories.
In the days of sailing ships this island stood...
Monday9 April2012
Marine biodiversity issues at stake
With 11 million square kilometres of territorial waters, France has the second largest maritime area in the world, spread over four different oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, and Indian oceans.
97% of these waters are associated with overseas territories, half of which is in French Polynesia.
There is...
Monday9 April2012
Seabird guano has long been used as an agricultural fertiliser, probably since pre-Columbian days. This fertiliser, containing all sorts of organic materials, among which animal bones, was very widely used until an English geologist discovered in the 1850s that it was also possible to use mineral phosphates.
This discovery led to...
9 April 2012
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For a long while the oil* buried deep beneath the ocean bed seemed to be impossible to exploit for two main reasons: firstly because existing technologies did not make it possible to drill 3,000 metres beneath sea level, and secondly because it was difficult to see how these deposits could...
Monday9 April2012
Baikonur. 21st century. 7.30am. Daybreak was well over an hour ago, though the sun is as red as at sunset. Together with his fellow Europeans, Rémy, a Frenchman, is getting ready to leave their hotel, the Sputnik. The Gazelle, a heavily laden little truck that will take them to work,...
