While the country may have a fundamentally unequal society, it is Guyanese women who are making waves in the environmental movement.
Dutch colonizers unfortunately long ago reclaimed flat, unstable marshland to enlarge their territory. Ocean water regularly surges over sea walls.
Another issue afflicting Guyana is gender inequality. Women receive less schooling than men and are much more likely to be married off before the age of 18. But, while the country may have a fundamentally unequal society,Guyana’s Marine Conservation Society, a nonprofit headed by a Guyanese woman named Annette Arjoon-Martins, is using drones to fly“At one time, the entire coastline of Guyana was covered by mangroves,” Arjoon-Martinsmore than a decade ago.
Between the use of drones and the groundwork being carried out by the Marine Conservation Society, Arjoon-Martins said: “We are merging traditional knowledge and scientific research to get all this information that we need but never had before and couldn’t afford to get.” The World Bank has said that “the impact of rising sea levels and intensified storm surges in Guyana would be among the greatest in the world.” Already, the country faces a faster rate of sea-level rise than most other parts of the planet. The ocean’s overflow would likely harm the entirety of Guyana’s coastal agriculture. AP explains that more than 66 percent of the country’s coastal urban areas are likely to suffer coastal erosion in flood conditions caused by climate change.
All of this is particularly time sensitive as Guyana undergoes a shift from agriculture to oil production as its main source of income. The country “is racing to build infrastructure” to start “drilling operations that would normally take a decade,” says the conservation news site
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