Monthly monitoring. The goal of our commitment is to conduct monthly monitoring to ensure the conservation of environmental quality through the use of sophisticated environmental measuring instruments and detailed assessment. In this way, we control the emissions of contaminants that could alter the natural characteristics of the water, air or surrounding noise; in other words, we control the risks that may present significant environmental damage.  Participatory environmental monitoring and quarterly monitoring. Participatory environmental monitoring is about integrating AMG communities and staff, with transparency and commitment to activities and environmental protection, core values ​​for our company. This monitoring is carried out in the presence of the communities closest to the mining units, specialists from a certified laboratory and members of our company. 

For AMG, promoting environmental education for children and adolescents is an integral part of their training and development; it is about making them aware of the importance of protecting their environment as a foundation for sustainable development. With this in mind, AMG conducts educational, social and responsible activities with educational institutions, in order to raise public awareness of the concept of respect and protection of the environment.

In 2010, Auplata initiated the replanting of the workings knows as the CL cut, at the Yaou mine site. The following photos show the various replanting stages at the site.

Stage 1 -May 2010:Land is prepared and retaining walls are built (posts and logs to support the earth).
Stage 2 – Plants are shipped in from the central nursery to the sites to be replanted, where temporary ""pop-nurseries"" are set up to condition and harden the plants with the same soil and climate conditions as the replantation sites.
Stage 3 – The best-formed plants are planted, and regrassing.
Stage 4 – View of the new plants growing.

Guiana's forests are an ecological asset of global importance, due to its extent as well as to the diversity of its ecosystem. Mindful of the environmental consequences of mining activities, Auplata Group advocates an approach that is responsible, respectful and sustainable for Guiana's gold mining industry.

Mining operations that are responsible and respectful of environmental directives can no longer be envisaged without remediation assistance based on accurate analysis of the areas opened for mining operations.

Access to minerals requires stripping of the areas authorized for exploitation. In tropical zones, stripping a natural environment leads to erosion, which must be controlled before envisaging any ecological engineering.

In 2009, Auplata, in collaboration with a respected local player, Les Jardins de la Comté, a nursery specializing in Guianese forest trees, had drawn up a technical plan for replanting the Yaou site, then immediately went on to:

- Install a forest nursery at the site.
- Draw up a profile of the sections to be replanted and bring in the necessary volumes of humus-bearing topsoil.
- Carry out three planting programs (May 2010, January 2011, May 2011), re-grassing trials to protect dam banks and earth benches.

The results of the tree planting (some 60 forest and fruit species) are particularly probative (over 95% rooting success rate, with an average growth rate for all species combined of 120 cm/year), unequalled in French Guiana.

Auplata hoped to create an environmental industry, to meet its own needs at its various mine sites as well as to extend these ecological engineering activities to other sectors of the economy with similar needs. The proven technical cooperation over the course of almost two years (technical results, training for nursery staff and operators in these new tasks), led Auplata to create, in January 2012, the company Verdal-Reforestage in partnership with Jean Weigel, the new firm's shareholder and Chief Operating Officer. With a post-graduate degree in Forestry, Jean Weigel is the man who initiated all these actions at the Yaou site as an external technical assistant. Verdal-Reforestage specializes in ecological engineering and remediation for degraded environments (mines, quarries, road corridors, channeled watercourses, land earmarked for development, etc.).

The firm's objective is to combine the technical forestry expertise of a tropical forest specialist, with the industrial resources mobilizable by Auplata (mining machinery, human resources, etc.), to meet Auplata's future replanting needs as well as offer those types of services to other public or private industrial enterprises in French Guiana or in other tropical rainforest countries. Verdal-Reforestage relies on a tried and tested production infrastructure to grow forest plants and other vegetation to reintroduce into remediation programs. It maintains a permanent stock of some 100 species of trees and other plants. This central nursery, based at Pointe Maripa, grows plants from seeds to seedlings (including sowing and transplantation).

Once this early growth is completed, and after rigorous selection of the best-formed plants, they are shipped to replanting sites, where temporary nurseries are installed: these "pop-up nurseries" are set up to condition and harden the plants in the soil and climatic conditions that they will encounter at the replanting sites. The success of the replantings (forest trees, orchards, or floral plantations after the destruction of their initial habitat) is entirely dependent on the quality of land-preparation: in addition to ploughing (deep tilling), it is important to transfer fertility, to compensate for the chemical poverty of tropical soils in wet climates.

This preparatory work permits the reintroduced plants to develop very fast and to outgrow weeds and other invasive plants. In its activities, Verdal-Reforestage uses the most appropriate machines for its operations, with access to the very wide range of construction, forestry and agricultural equipment available in the European market in recent years. Some of these tools have never been used in Guiana before.