Via Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal:

Say No to Industrial Mining in French Guyana’s Ancient Rainforests

The French government will soon decide whether to grant the last required environmental license for industrial open-air gold mining in the primary rainforests of French Guyana by the Canadian multinational Cambior. The site chosen for the project covers 30 square kilometers of protected rainforests including numers nature reserves. Local peoples are protesting by organizing the “No to the Cambior project at Kaw Mountain” campaign made up of a coalition of 24 organizations in French Guyana against the gold mining activity.

The gold mining activities as planned by Cambior S.A. will devastate the ecology of these priceless tropical rainforests of Guyana and their inhabitants.

Read more and take action here.

UPDATE: The following update was sent out by Ecological Internet on 10/13/06:

VICTORY: French Guiana Rainforest Gold Mine Successfully Blocked; Ecological Internet’s Campaign Protest Given as Major Factor in Decision

French Guiana’s environmentalists are rejoicing as it became known yesterday that gold mining activities of Canadian multi-national Cambior in the heavily rainforested Kaw region in French Guiana have been blocked. In late September, Ecological Internet’s Earth Action Network mobilized, upon the request of local and international conservationists working in the area, a last ditch effort to protect the area from certain ruin - inundating government officials with tens of thousands of protest emails.

Read more here.