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GEF/SGP to support the establishment of the first biodiversity training school in Suriname

The Global Environmental Facility/ Small Grants Programme will support for the next two years the Panda Foundation to establish the first biodiversity training school in Suriname. GEF/SGP will grant the Foundation with 50,000 USD to conserve the traditional Maroon knowledge regarding biodiversity, nature and culture in Brokopondo Lake and to continue its work at Tonka Island. The chairman of the foundation, Frits van Troon, and the UNDP Country Director, Thomas Gittens, signed the agreement on the 3rd of April. The funding will help in the promotion of biodiversity education in Suriname, through a training school for young people doing research and learning more about Tonka Island and its surrounding environment. The project also aims to preserve the local Saramacan knowledge by recruiting young Saramacan people from the surrounding villages to be trained as future tree spotters and resource persons for forest management by the chair of the foundation and expert botanist, Frits van Troon. The knowledge of van Troon, a Maroon descendant from the Saramacan tribe, about botanic has been internationally recognised and is unique in Suriname. His knowledge, of enormous value, will be transferred to young Surinamese through this project, keeping it alive for future