See bospolitie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "For austerity reasons, the Forestry Department was abolished in 1925 and only a slimmed-down Forest Police was maintained as part of the Department of Agriculture. The Forest Police, which was under the supreme supervision of the public prosecutor general, was also tasked with some special duties relating to the Maroons and Amerindians. Besides carrying out orders coming from the civil administration, it had to control the sale of timber to traders and collect the requisite fee. Furthermore, the Forest Police had to monitor the situation in the villages, encourage the cultivation of food crops and gather intelligence on the population in general. Due to lack of manpower, the Forest Police was hardly able to perform all these duties adequately.",
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"text": "In 1925 werd uit bezuinigingsoverwegingen de Dienst voor het Boswezen opgeheven en slechts een afgeslankte Bospolitie werd als onderdeel van het Departement van Landbouw gehandhaafd. De Bospolitie, die viel onder het oppertoezicht van de PG, was tevens belast met enkele speciale taken met betrekking tot de Bosnegers en de Indianen. Naast het uitvoeren van bestuursopdrachten moest zij controle uitoefenen op de verkoop van hout aan de handelaren en de verschuldigde retributie innen. Verder moest de Bospolitie toezicht houden op de situatie in de dorpen, het aankweken van voedingsgewassen stimuleren en in het algemeen inlichtingen inwinnen over de bevolking. Door gebrek aan menskracht was de Bospolitie nauwelijks in staat om al deze taken adequaat te vervullen.",
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"english": "The Cotingas are among the most remarkable birds of Suriname and vary greatly in size. One of the most famous, although it is rarely seen but heard all the more, and whose resonant sound all travellers write about, is Lathria cinerea (Surinamese Dutch groenhartvogel, Sranan Tongo kwetikwetiyaba, after the sound, or busiskowtu, jungle policeman, Arawak olikako, Carib paipei), a small, grey bird.",
"ref": "1914, Herman Daniël Benjamins, Joh. F. Snelleman, editors, Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië [Encyclopaedia of the Dutch West Indies], Den Haag/Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/E.J. Brill, page 231:",
"text": "De Cotinga's behooren tot de merkwaardigste vogels van Suriname en zijn van zeer uiteenloopende grootte. Een van de meest bekende, ofschoon men hem zelden te zien krijgt, maar des te meer hoort en over wiens klankvol geluid alle reizigers schrijven, is Lathria cinerea, (sur. Groenhartvogel, n.e. kwit-kwitti-jaba, naar het geluid, of Boesiskoutoe, Boschpolitieagent, arow. Olikako, kar. Paipei) een kleine, grijze vogel.",
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"ref": "1995 January 14, Bart de Boer, “Surinameː genieten van bossen[,] watervallen en boeiende fauna [Surinameː relishing forests, waterfalls, and captivating wildlife]”, in Amigoe:",
"text": "Op de kale rotsen broeden zowaar nachtzwaluwen, door hun schutkleur versmelten ze als het ware met de omgeving en je trapt bijna op ze voordat je ze ziet. Het pad naar beneden, glibberig geworden door een regenbui wordt begrensd door heerlijk ruikende orchideeën. In het oerwoud druppelt het nog wat na en de bospolitie is alweer overal te horen.",
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"ref": "2010 April 17, Toine Heijmans, “Geluidloos door het woud [Soundlessly through the forest]”, in De Volkskrant, retrieved 2023-11-01:",
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