Panning for Life
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The people in this forest reserve have no choice other than to pan for gold and collect rattan in order to survive. The government should intervene so conservation and poverty relief can go hand in hand in proper equilibrium.
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TWO children, a boy and a girl, plunged into water by the edge of Nantu River.They were playing cheerfully in the muddy river, waving to traditional ketinting boats as they sailed past. Behind the children, four adults were energetically lifting gravel and sand from the riverbed.
They were river gold miners, panning river sand, sieving, shaking it and removing fine sand in hopes of finding gold amid the gravel caught in their sieves. There were
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