June 2012

• June 10, 2012 – 8:26 am

  Pictures of the Week – Sapphire miners in Madagascar

  Ankarana National Park was created in 1956 and lies about 90 km south of Antsiranana covering an area of 182,5 km². It is a spectacularly eroded limestone fortress of sharp ridges, patches of dense tropical jungle, deciduous forest, deep caves and canyons (actually the biggest underground network of Africa) and rushing rivers.

  

  The Antakarana is the main ethnic group who lives in this region. They subsist on growing vegetables, chicken and cattle and apiculture. Although they still practice slash and burn agriculture, the biggest threat for Ankarana is the rapidly increasing sapphire mining and the illegal cut of precious woods.

  

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  • onder: Ankarana, Diego Suarez, Frank Janssens, Madafocus, Madagascar, Madagaskar, mine, RN6, saffier, sapphire
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