Eldorado in the French Amazon: Tale of a future catastrophe

French Guiana, one of the last virgin equatorial rainforests in the world, has become a devil’s playground: its earth is filled with gold. Gold-hunters are destroying the forest and use mercury, a highly toxic substance, to amalgamate the precious gold-dust. The rivers are contaminated by the process and are poisoning the Amerindian community that lives off of the fish that swim in them. The French authorities cannot control this jungle, which covers a territory as large as Portugal. Scientists announce that a health tragedy of Minimata-like proportions will strike by 2013.

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• Author Remi Benali / LIGHTMEDIATION
• Date Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:21:13 +0100

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