Audit sauvage: régimes de valeur de la terre et de la biodiversité en Amazonie

The efforts of international environmental NGOs to preserve biodiversity are increasingly embedded in a globalising worldview connected to sophisticated techniques for the quantification and surveillance of forest carbon and biodiversity. The ethnographic study of conservation must consequently take into account the new political, economic and ideological context represented by the liberalisation of conservation. In this article, I compare the points of view of, on the one hand, scientific and governmental actors, and on the other hand, the Trio, a Carib people of Suriname, on the forest, land and territory, in order to evaluate the possibility of collaborating for the protection of biodiversity, and I raise questions about the definition of biodiversity itself.