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Case 4: Barama Forestry Company in Guyana* Barama is a forestry company headquartered in Malaysia that harvests lumber and wood products from a number of other developing countries. Barama has worked hard to become an environmentally responsible firm. It avoids clear-cut harvesting. It contracts with local firms to plant trees in the areas it has lumbered. Recently, it received an award from the Forestry Stewardship Council for its environmental policies. It won this award in part for its environmental practices in Guyana. However, its social experiences in Guyana were very mixed. It developed the contract with the government of the country, which legally owned title to the lands that Barama lumbered in a remote area in the northwest part of Guyana. There had been no roads into the area, which was accessible primarily by river. Trace amounts of gold had been discovered in the rivers in other parts of Guyana. In several areas, these led to significant gold finds. There were several mostly illiterate indigenous peoples who had been living in these remote areas for centuries. The indigenous people lived in and off the forests. They thought of the lands as theirs on the basis of use. Of course, they did not use all of the forest; they would pass through to hunt and fish and gather fruit, berries, and edible wild plants. Barama generally respected the traditions of these people and their ways of life. An environmental consulting group had cautioned the firm that greater sensitivity was called for in their relations with the indigenous groups. Barama built roads into this area in area in order to move in equipment and workers and to bring out the lumber that they harvested. Several unexpected things began to happen. Large numbers of men living along the coast travelled along these newly developed lumber roads and began small mining operations along the river in this remote area. They were unruly both when they failed to find gold and when they did. A number did find gold, although mostly in small amounts. They ignored the customs and implicit land claims of the indigenous peoples. In some areas, the men abducted teenage girls from among the indigenous villages and forced them to become prostitutes. They burned houses in some villages where people protested. * This case is based on research originally undertaken by Gail Whiteman. Another version of this case appears in Frederick Bird and Stewart Herman, eds., International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Questions: What responsibilities does Barama have with respect to this situation? To what degree is it responsible for the ugly situation that developed? Barama has now finished logging. Are there any steps it should now take? Are there actions it should have undertaken previously? Are there ways that it might have limited access to its lumber roads or closed them down after it ceased operations? Could it have used its own legal expertise to help the indigenous peoples legalize their traditional land rights? Could it have managed its operations in different ways to avoid or reduce the harm subsequently experienced by the indigenous population