The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Envi-ronment says imaging has shown that the Parabara mining road has driven 16 hectares of deforestation in southern Guyana during the years 2009 and 2010 and that there was no new deforestation as a result of it in 2012.
In a letter to Stabroek News which will appear in tomorrow’s edition of the newspaper, Permanent Secretary Joslyn McKenzie said that the Ministry will continue to monitor to ensure compliance and enforcement in this and other mining districts. The Ministry just over a week ago had dispatched a team to investigate claims that a road was being built in the ecologically sensitive areas of the southern reaches of the country. No permission had been given for this road, reports say.
“Regarding queries made on recent infrastructure development in the vicinity of Parabara, the
