A look at the Mighty Southern Orinoco. First Special Edition.

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Provita, the SVE, and EXPLORA Nature Projects have developed this first special edition of EXPLORA magazine, covering the aspects related to the opening of the Orinoco Mining Arc and all of its implications.

Publication: August 27, 2017.

Synopsis: The opening of the so-called Orinoco Mining Arc (Arco Minero del Orinoco, AMO) to mining exploitation is a worrying threat to one of the areas of greatest biological and cultural diversity in Venezuela. For this reason, Provita, the Venezuelan Society of Ecology, and EXPLORA Nature Projects, in a collaborative and multidisciplinary effort, have compiled and developed two special editions of EXPLORA magazine covering all the aspects that a project of this scope entails — both ecologically and in terms of forest loss, contamination of water sources, and the social and health spheres.

Objectives

• Disseminate relevant information based on scientific evidence that allows people to understand the possible impacts of the AMO, so that an objective opinion can be formed on this highly politicized and controversial project.
• Promote social oversight and social and environmental responsibility.
• Understand the implications of the Orinoco Mining Arc.

Events organized

• Symposium on the regional implications of the Orinoco Mining Arc during the I Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Conservation Biology; congress declaration on the regional implications of the Mining Arc https://lacccb2018.org/orinoco-mining-arc-1/

Contents

• Complete edition
• Letter from the editor
• Prologue: a look at the Mighty Southern Orinoco
• Introduction
• Gold mining in Venezuela
• The Orinoco Mining Arc: three views, one same project
• Is our Mighty Southern Orinoco protected?
• Biodiversity south of the Orinoco
• Deforestation and habitat fragmentation: threats from mining
• Mining: an omnipresent threat to our southern rivers
• The Orinoco and the Caribbean
• Mining and malaria in Venezuela
• Indigenous peoples: the great losers of the ZDEN-AMO
• Indigenous rights and projects south of the Orinoco
• Environmental services and the natural capital of the Mining Arc
• A future based on sustainable development south of the Orinoco
• Ecotourism and the Orinoco Mining Arc