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Indigenous peoples play a crucial role in the protection of tropical biodiversity, particularly in lowland South America. One fifth of the Amazon rainforest is the traditional land of indigenous peoples, and these groups have often risked their lives to protect it. Not only do these people have a material tie to their environment in terms of the plants that they use and consume to sustain themselves, they have a spiritual bond with their forests. For this reason, and because of their extensive knowledge of ecosystem stewardship gathered across centuries, ACT believes that indigenous cultures represent our best hope for the perpetual protection of enormous tracts of the world’s rainforests.

Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)




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Chinese logging companies are relatively new arrivals in South America. In Suriname, at least two have been operating since in 1996; in neighbouring Guyana, the first arrivals surfaced in the year 2000. In both cases, the companies are operating on or near Indigenous and Tribal lands. Reports have also surfaced of Chinese companies operating in northern Brazil. The widely reported ban on domestic logging in China, in part prompted by devastating flooding related to forest loss, is one obvious reason for the internationalization of Chinese logging. According to Surinamese government statistics for the years 1999 and 2000, Chinese loggers were by far the largest producers of round wood and China was by far the largest export destination for Surinamese round wood, exceeding the next highest destination fourfold...

Logging and Tribal Rights in Suriname by Fergus MacKay




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The Committee notes that the Republic of Suriname, which ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1985, has so far never submitted a report to the Committee...

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva, Switzerland

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