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In 1887 the affair attracted a fair few pages in the Parisian press. Jules Gros, who lived in the suburbs of Paris in Vanves and was a popular novelist and a member of various geographical sciences, was named president for life of Counani. Whilst a few took this seriously, most...
Sunday19 February2012
19 February 2012
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An international eco-label
The Ramsar Convention on wetlands is an intergovernmental treaty that was adopted on 2 February 1971 at Ramsar in Iran. It now concerns over 160 countries, including France which signed up in 1986. The Ramsar Convention works to conserve the various habitats (rivers, lakes, coastal lagoons, mangrove forests,...
Sunday19 February2012
Sunday19 February2012
19 February 2012
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Day 1
Five years later and we are back at Rochambeau airport ready for a second expedition. Two helicopter trips take our team of six adventurers and two guides to Mont Chauve. From the sky we quickly spot that what used to be virgin forest a few years ago now looks...
Sunday19 February2012
19 February 2012
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Saint-Georges de l’Oyapock - Santana
Christmas! We’re going to be spending Christmas in Brazil. Rio ? Salvador? No, in Counani! A tiny little quilombo* lost on the equator.
It is the beginning of the rainy season. At St-Georges goods from Brazil are being unloaded onto the quay. A two-masted wooden boat about fifteen...
Sunday19 February2012
Par Dario & Marc Gayot, Pierre-Olivier Jay, Denis Lamaison, Hélène Lamaison, Marie-Claire Parriault, Christian Roudgé. Remerciements à Alessandro de Sousa Alencar
19 February 2012
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“They look prehistoric!” The startled observers of sea turtles on the beaches of French Guiana are closer to the truth than they realise. The first forms of sea turtle appeared during the Lower Cretaceous over 120 million years ago. And the anatomy of certain fossils that have been found suggests...
In the late eighteenth century the chiefs of the Aluku and Boni tribes at the head of a small group of Maroon slaves left the region of the Cottica River east of Paramaribo to take refuge on the Maroni.
Around 1791 they founded their first villages upstream of this series of...
Sunday19 February2012
19 February 2012
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The Bushinenge (the word comes from the name Bush Negroes), still called ‘Maroons’, are the descendants of African slaves who fled the colonial plantations in Suriname and took refuge in the forest in the mid-seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. They managed to adapt to this new environment and establish original...
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