NARENA
NARENA’s main activities take place in the inventory and
assessment of natural resources and monitoring environmental
impacts of economic utilization of these resources. In doing
so, it makes use of modern technologies such as GIS and
Remote Sensing. NARENA has created and maintains the
country’s most extensive geo-database, which is regularly
updated and enlarged.
NARENA’s services concentrate in the fields of analyses and
mapping of vegetation – soil type relationships, planning of
access road, skid trails, annual coupes, tree location
mapping, etc. within timber concessions, setting up of GIS
units including training and supply of digitized geo-data,
compiling topographic and thematic maps for the general
public, etc.
These services are provided
to both Governmental agencies; mostly the Min. of Natural
Resources and commercial companies such as Staatsolie Oil
Company, SURALCO, BHP Billiton, Bruynzeel and other logging
and mining companies. But also NGO’s; especially
conservation NGO’s such as WWF, ACT and CI, and CBO’s make
regular use of the services of NARENA.
The department has
collected data on:
- Topography of Suriname
(based on 100.000 map sheet, Central Bureau for Aerial
Survey)
- Vegetation of Suriname
(based on reconnaissance vegetation maps and satellite
data)
- Protected areas of
Suriname (based on data of theForest Service Suriname)
To name a few, a random
selection of recent and running projects in which NARENA is
involved can be given as follows:
- Validation of Criteria
and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management, FAO;
- Creation of topographic
and thematic maps for a new geography book for the
primary school (Min. of Education);
- Mapping of gold mining
zones in the Greenstone belt for the WWF gold mining
abatement project;
- Setting up of a GIS
Unit, including training and supply of digitized
geo-data, within the Department of Geology and Mining
(Min. of Natural Resources);
- Vegetation and soil
type/geological assessment and mapping of the Rac a Rac
and Klaverblad area for bauxite mining companies;
- Land use and vegetation
assessment in the Bigi Pan MUMA;
- Locating and mapping of
on shore oil exploration sites for Staatsolie Oil
Company.
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Vacancies:
Scientist
Forestry
