Guyana needs a University on Forestry and Environmental Studies

“Informal gold mining is causing environmental harm and human rights abuses in Guyana”. This is according to a report by the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Programme. The report “All That Glitters: Gold Mining in Guyana,” claimed that, “the Guyanese government has failed to reign in wildcat miners and protect the rights of indigenous populations’, and that mining in Guyana “has caused deforestation and mercury pollution, which can cause severe public health problems, and worsened malaria in the region”. And “medium and small scale gold mining as currently practiced and regulated inflict severe environmental, health, and social damage on the areas and people near mining operations”, according to Bonnie Docherty of the IHRC.
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