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Was for gold. Now its for oil. Guyana is fast becoming a petrostate, the Fastest Growing economy in the world. But new wealth has stoked old tensions. Neighbouring socialist venezuela claims a vast chunk of guyanese territory. The stakes are suddenly very high. We shall Never Surrender an inch of our territory. Heavily forested guyana has always been a carbon sink. Now, with the oil and gas flowing, some call it a carbon bomb. Fragile ecosystems are vulnerable to possible oil spills and rising sea levels. Guyana is making choices which will have global impact. Will they be wise ones . Its repu...

spills and rising sea levels. guyana is making choices which will have global impact. will they be wise ones? it's republic day in georgetown, guyana's capital. party time for the country's 800,000 people. the ministry of natural resources is on the road. i want to hear you make some noise. the stage is set here for transformational change, a resource—driven economic boom that will spread unprecedented wealth through the generations. in past decades, guyana's dominant commodity was gold, found deep in the forested interior. to get to the gold mines, you need to take a pretty rough�...

The new fencing at Kanahā Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary will provide safe nesting habitats for native and endangered birds by excluding mammalian predators such as rats, mongoose and cats.

12 of them down the ridge of our house. all in the back yard. >> when i go to work in the mornings, they're there on the roof when i open the door. scares the crap out of me. >> reporter: they called georgia's department of natural resources but have found little help. the birds are federally protected. digging deeper, we learned it's because the species was on the decline due to eggshell thinning from pesticides and the loss of their nesting habitat. neighbors aren't so sure. >> for as many as i've seen out here, i don't know if they're endangered or not. >> reporter: so many gather in the sk...

Affected the environment so it may be generations before this is a viable farm again. >> let's take a look at another picture. let's move forward. this shows us some of the seascaping, the effect on the coastline, jeff. as we experienced before, there was a huge effect on the ecosystems off the coast there and all the islands in the arc pell ago. how long will this take? as we scroll, it got moved in. what will happen to all of this? >> it's such a shocking reminder of how truly vulnerable we are. less's stroll it back and look at the pristine coastline. we see, your standard stretch of beach....