01/18/2024
People PLEASE read and if you can SIGN, Suriname is about to lose a lot of land. We MUST STOP this.
Suriname is about to lose its status as greenest country on earth :
Documents [1a] indicate that the Government of Suriname is planning to designate 560.000 hectares of Suriname's territory for large-scale agricultural plots.[1b].
It has been confirmed that of the total area, 451,000 hectares are threatened primary forest in the proposed agriculture plots (441,362 ha for the Ministry of Agriculture and 9,958 ha for Foundations backed by private land developers).This would result in a shocking amount of primary forest loss for a country that has experienced an average annual deforestation of 6,560 hectares over the past 21 years (137,746 hectares in total since the year 2002).[2].
Suriname is about to lose its status as greenest country on earth:Documents [1a] indicate that the Government of Suriname is planning to designate 560.000 hectares of Suriname's territory for large-scale agricultural plots.[1b].It has been confirmed that of the total area, 451,000 hectares are threa...