and that is a 24/7 concern for conservationist annette arjoon. oil spill, the four species of marine turtles that nest in the 100km stretch of shell beach would have no nesting habitat. so, apart from the oil polluting them in the water, their nesting beach would have been decimated. so they'll have no place to go and lay their eggs. and for hatchlings to even emerge. right behind the beach, you have a very massive mangrove ecosystem, that the birds depend on the crustaceans in that forest for their existence. so it will also decimate the crab population as well as the bird population. and of course the mangroves itself sequester five times more carbon than any other forest type. so you'd have also decimated a massive carbon sink as well, in the process. do you think that, in the end, guyana has made the wrong choice in pushing ahead with what is going to be a massive and decades—long investment in oil and gas offshore? i have worked here for over three decades and i've seen extreme poverty for three decades. in terms of the government pursuing a