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The Guyana Shield – positive results for the project on sustainable natural resource management with the WWF
The project steering committee met for the last time in Surinam to review four years of activities to preserve the ecosystems of the Guyana Shield. Results for this flagship project for biodiversity protection are extremely positive.
En 2008, the WWF launched a project for sustainable natural resource management on the Guyana Shield (French Guyana, Surinam, Guyana and Brazil), with 19% co-financing from the FGEF.
The aim of the project was to establish lasting protection for marine and forest ecosystems and to preserve their environmental services to local populations.
The final steering committee meeting, held on 6 and 7 March at Paramaribo in Surinam and attended by AFD and FGEF representatives, highlighted the project’s achievements and successes.
The project activities focused mainly on protected area management, reducing gold-panning impacts, sustainable forest management and the management and conservation of aquatic ecosystems and species.
All these activities, conducted for governments (developing regulations, capacity-building), businesses and national agencies (improved practice and eco-certification, pilot sites, training in ecotourism) and local communities (more sustainable use of the resources they depend on) were backed up by wide-ranging communication, awareness-raising and educational campaigns.
The project brought significant advances towards mercury-free extraction of gold and the introduction of REDD+ processes.
New protected areas were created and the scientific studies produced brought new knowledge on the environment.
The project also organised numerous workshops for exchanges between different territories. All in all, awareness of environmental conservation issues has clearly emerged throughout the region.
The FGEF will be pursuing its activities for the Guyana Shield, in particular by contributing to the project for a regional REDD+ development platform.
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