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 - March 2024
Les articles et actus du magazine
Some animal species interest the general public, and not just the reduced circle of keen nature lovers. There are a large number of such charismatic animals; any list of them would include marine mammals, bears, wolves, sea turtles, and large African wildlife. These species are endearing, frightening and impressive, bound...
Sunday8 April2012
By Guillaume Feuillet – Association Kwata

"Few industries have prospered so rapidly as alluvial gold dredging; whilst twenty-odd years ago there were only a few rudimentary attempts, it is now a prosperous industry contributing each day to global gold production" A. Bordeaux, 1908. "Dredging is certainly one of the most serious and most interesting industrial experiments to have...
Sunday8 April2012
By Pierre Rostan, Bureau d’Études Géologiques TETHYS

What environmental impact does it have ? How can sites be regenerated ? French Guiana has considerable gold potential. The discovery of gold around 1850 resulted in a "gold rush" lasting nearly a century with intense gold mining activity across much of the territory. And then the "gold fever" subsided. But since the...
Sunday8 April2012
By Alain Coppel (ONF), Stephane Guitet (ONF) , Olivier Brunaux (ONF), Eudoxie Jantet (Atelier Aymara), Delphine Miau (CAEX GEO), Nicolas Miramond (DIREN).

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The tale of a few grams of gold and how it passes from a covert placer mine to Brazil through the informal economy before ending up in a jewellers’ via legal channels. Since the early 2000s the price of gold on international markets has shot up. The price of the precious...
Sunday8 April2012
By Romain Taravella & Laurent Marot.

“It took us just over two hours to reach the summit,” shouts Nicolas as the helicopter blades disappear in a growing roar. Nicolas, the Ecology Officer with the Amazon Park of French Guiana, emerges above the boxes, tin drums, and backpacks piled up in the cockpit around us with a...
Sunday8 April2012
By Pierre-Olivier Jay & Lise Landrin.

Five of us, all novices, had set off up the Sinnamary accompanied by an Amazonian guide to learn about angling for wolf fish. We met up at the Petit Saut damn and placed our tin drums, rods, and supplies into the pirogue to set off for the Saut Takari Tante. To...
Sunday8 April2012
By Christelle Delgrange et Christian Roudgé

The seventy-six-year-old Mr. Ya Saï Po arrived in French Guiana with the first Hmong refugees and is now the last skilled craftsmen to forge traditional Hmong knives. We met him in his forge behind his family home in Cacao. From Laos… It was in the mountains to the north of Laos that Mr....
Sunday8 April2012
By Propos recueillis par Christelle Delgrange, traduction Tchia Le Vessier

The settlement of the Guianas started in the Paleo-Indian period, although there is no direct archaeological proof making it possible to specify exactly when this took place. The climate conditions were drier and human groups lived in a landscape made up of dense humid forest on the higher land, dry...
Sunday8 April2012
By Matthieu Hildebrand, Eric Gassies / Carte M. Hildebrand / Infographie Atelier Aymara