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FRANCE-GUIANA-GOLD-ENVIRONMENT
WITH "GOLD SEEKERS TURN RIVER IN FRENCH GUIANA INTO ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE"
A picture taken in June 2004 and released by French Gendarmerie shows a helicopter about to land in an illegal gold diggers village in French Guiana. In the past two years, police have launched some 60 "Anaconda operations" -- named after the giant boa constrictors that inhabit this tropical French overseas department -- but they have not succeeded in squeezing the life out of the illegal gold trade that threatens the environment here. Instead, an estimated 12,000 workers, for the most part illegal workers from across the border in Brazil, roam the rivers in search of the precious metal, poisoning the rivers with the quicksilver they use to extract the gold. AFP PHOTO/ GENDARMERIE NATIONALE
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- FRANCE, 01 iun |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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26 Octombrie 2004 |
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1556 x 1158 (1.36 MB) |
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