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New Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…Suriname President Chan Santokhi confirmed to local media this week that he shuttered a pilot program setting aside 30,000 hectares for 50 Mennonite families, easing some fears that the country was on the verge of destroying large parts of the Amazon Rainforest.
The government in Suriname said it cancelled a controversial pilot program that would have brought hundreds of Mennonites to the country to carry out agricultural activity, likely in forested areas.to local media this week that he shuttered a pilot program setting aside 30,000 hectares for 50 Mennonite families, easing some fears that the country was on the verge of destroying large parts of the Amazon Rainforest.
The Mennonite pilot program appears to overlap with the area, suggesting that it was one part of a larger plan to develop agriculture with private entities. Last month, local communities filed an injunction against the plans, saying they were carried out dishonestly and could cause “enormous damage to the environment.” Indigenous and Maroon communities live within the planned area but haven’t been granted ancestral rights to their territory.
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