Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Mining
Environment
Economy
Environmental issues
(Preliminary) Exploration
Noise and human presence Limited deforestation/habitat destruction Home range de-fragmentation due to roads Limited increase of erosion and turbidity Disturbance of hydrology Pollution, mainly chance of eutrophication of streams Road kills (Increased hunting and logging)
Increase of erosion
Disturbance of hydrology
Mining
Deforestation/habitat destruction: threat to biodiversity Erosion and turbidity Disturbance hydrology, spongy bauxite cap: threat to aquatic biodiversity Acid soil drainage (coastal area) Dust All other exploration issues increased
Deforestation/habitat destruction
Threat to biodiversity
Increased turbidity
Disturbance hydrology
Bauxite processing
Energy: hydro-energy reservoirs Caustic effluents and red-mud Other pollutants
Man-made reservoirs
Man-made reservoirs
Loss of terrestrial biodiversity Decrease and change of aquatic biodiversity Regulation of downstream river decrease in fish biomass
Forest decomposition
Heavy metals
Red-mud lakes
Rehabilitation
Environment
Economy
Acknowledgement
BHPBilliton for use of camera-trap photographs Suralco for support of Topibo Swamp study WWF for support of mercury study Schure-Beijerinck-Popping Fund for support of turbidity study EDF France for support of fish study Brokopondo Lake Colleagues and assistants in field studies for their friendship and help