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Guyana is fully carved up
Dear Editor,
The Guyana map below taken from Redmonitor.org shows seven sites – all adding up to one million acres or hectares of logging concessions handed out to Chinese companies.
According to the website Global Timber, these concessions were taken over from other concession holders, a process known as “landlording” which is illegal in Guyana (unless officially authorised by the President). Under Guyanese law, forest concessions cannot be traded, but must be re-advertised by the Forestry Commission in an open auction
Guyana has a carbon-storing deal with the Norwegians valued at USD 250 million over five years. This deal requires Guyana to keep most of its forest trees standing so that they can provide the function of storing carbon. It is difficult to imagine the Norwegians honoring their part of the agreement, now that one million acres/hectares of forest concessions have been parceled out to some eleven Chinese companies.
Over the last few days the independent presses, SN and KN have done a well deserved expose’, (a tribute to fulfilling their social contract with the Guyanese population) – showing massive cutting and shipping of tens of thousands of logs. Bai Shan Lin which featured largely in these ‘exposes’ does not have a license to cut and ship out logs from Guyana.
What agency of Guyana Government has responsibility to bring this company to account? Some say the Guyana Forestry Commission, but this agency, according to several news articles does not even know the scale of the logging activities nor do they know how many logs are shipped out.
It is apparent that these companies – particularly Bai Shan Lin – are coddled at the highest levels of the government. Simply put, people are paid to look the other way while the patrimony of the Guyanese people is stolen in broad daylight.
Mike Persaud
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