Group Conservation: Gem Trade and Super-Clean Sapphires

group conservation: I can tell you this is big, Pardieu said, according to Brandon Sun. Gem trade shows around the world now have nice, big, super-clean sapphires from the region. More high-quality sapphires have been found in the biodiverse area known as Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena in the past six months than were found in the entire country over the past 20 years, according to Vincent Pardieu, a French gemologist who has been visiting mines there for more than a decade and was in the area last month. It's the most important discovery in Madagascar for the past 20 or 30 years. The miners have cut down thousands of acres of forest in the protected area, which environmental group Conservation International helps to manage, said the officials. Tens of thousands of miners and gem traders have poured into the rainforests around the village of Bemainty, said local officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.