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Good As Gold -- No, Better
Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer readers' questions |
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11 May 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Could you say more about the indigenous people of Suriname with whom you have been working so closely? How many different groups or ethnicities are there? In what kinds of environments do they live? How do they relate to the plants and animals of their environment, which are as threatened as they are by the toxic pollution caused by the mining operations? ... |
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| Topics: health, InterActivist, interview, mining, Suriname (all these topics) |
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Bien Suriname
Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer Grist's questions |
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07 May 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? We are co-directors of the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund. What does your organization do? Our organization supplies technology and support to indigenous communities that are impacted by gold mining. The communities we work with live in the rainforest deep in the interior of Surina ... |
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| Topics: health, InterActivist, interview, mining, Suriname (all these topics) |
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