#maxbird

in english now if you’re interested:

a few years back there was a huge gold mining project in french guiana called “montagne d’or” which would have led to deforestation, chemical pollution with highly toxic products and CO2 emissions in a well-preserved part of the amazonian forest. obviously people weren’t very happy about it and the project was “stopped”.

this year (because 2020 sucks and keeps on sucking) a “new” project was approved: it’s called “espérance” (because “gold mountain” was a bit too in-your-face. “hopefulness” is better at not making them look like “greedy and unscrupulous bastards” as Maxbird says so well in this video) but apart from the name it’s pretty much the same project.

they’ve been very discreet, i hadn’t even heard about it before seeing the vid. it looks like they’ve been trying to get it started sneakily while we were all distracted with other stuff, so i’d really appreciate it if you could share this video around so that as many french people as possible can see it and react

i don’t know if non-french people can or would even be interested in protesting against this, but here are some useful links:

if you want to sign the petition against the project (there are also some news on the project’s progress, available in english & other languages): https://www.sauvonslaforet.org/petitions/1084/non-a-la-mine-dor-industrielle-en-guyane?t=361-12-6296-1

if you want to learn more about the project and what’s being done to fight it, here is the website of the association Or de question (sadly only available in french but i’m always willing to talk about this if you have questions): http://ordequestion.org/

if you want to donate to said association (available in english): https://www.helloasso.com/associations/maiouri-nature-guyane/formulaires/1