AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoCross-Border Mining: Miners moving from French Guiana into Suriname are driving illegal gold operations deeper into Indigenous lands. Forest clearing and mercury pollution threaten Wayana communities’ water and fishing grounds, despite pledges to curb the activity. Kourou’s Space Sector: ESA-JAXA’s BepiColombo mission, launched from Kourou in 2018, has passed checks on hardware needed for its critical Mercury-orbit insertion burn, scheduled for November 21. The milestone keeps a major international mission on course as it approaches its science phase.
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