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April 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
One claimed that police and soldiers have also arrived in the area, “not
to protect but too profit”.
Conservationists say the government has called an emergency meeting about the
issue, but lacks the security manpower to block the miners.
Rasolonirina Ramenason, the region’s Environment and Forestry director, said
that of the 10,000 people who have travelled to the area, around half had
encroached the conservation zone.
James MacKinnon, from US charity Conservation International, said people in
the precious stones industry were taking the discovery “very seriously”.
“There have been around four big sapphire rushes in Madagascar but in
terms of the numbers of people, this is the biggest I am aware of,” he
said.
Richard Hughes, Madagascan representative with the World Wide Fund for Nature,
said with little or no formal protection of the rainforest, the damage would
be equally significant.
“Sapphires require excavating,” he said. “That will do direct
damage but also for the big influx of people, there’s no roads or
infrastructure in place so they will be dependent on the forest for
firewood, shelter and food and that will cause additional damage.”
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