A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

In the center of the village is a soccer field. Around it, in nicely painted wood, are the main community buildings of the roughly 1,000 Kapohn Indigenous people who live on the banks of the Kako River, in an area of preserved Amazonian forest less than 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Guyana’s border with Venezuela. Near the church and next to the health care center, the village’s newest development stands out in fresh, light-green paint: a mall, …