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The '''Birim River''' or ''Ok Birim'' in the western province of [[New Guinea]] is a tributary of the [[Ok Tedi River]], which is in turn a tributary of the north [[Fly River]]. The Birim river joins the Ok Tedi river from the west between [[Ningerum]] and Bige. The Birim river area is inhabited by the [[Yonggom]] tribe. They practise tropical forest [[Slash and burn|Swidden]] agriculture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.papuaweb.org/bib/hays/loc/YONGKOM.pdf|title=YONGKOM|publisher=Papua Web|accessdate=2009-03-18|archive-date=2008-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723194731/http://papuaweb.org/bib/hays/loc/YONGKOM.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There has been ongoing controversy about the impacts on migratory fish stocks and on the environment in general of dredging and other mining operations by the [[Ok Tedi Mining Limited]] at what remains of the former [[Mount Fubilan]], which during the course of the excavation of the [[Ok Tedi Mine]] has been replaced by a massive pit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rettet-die-elbe.de/oktedi/environ3.htm|title=Ok Tedi Environment Rehabilitation?|publisher=Rettet die Elbe|accessdate=2009-03-18}}</ref> Since 1984, the people of the area have blamed the mine for general decline in crops and fish yields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/projects/Ok-Fly_social_monitoring/Ofsmp05-Kirsch1993-the-Yonggom-people.pdf|pages=22–26|title=SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE OK TEDI MINE ON THE YONGGOM VILLAGES OF THE NORTH FLY, 1992|publisher=Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies|accessdate=2009-03-18|archive-date=2008-10-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010062450/http://rspas.anu.edu.au/rmap/projects/Ok-Fly_social_monitoring/Ofsmp05-Kirsch1993-the-Yonggom-people.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book
| first1 = Eric |last1=Hirsch| first2=Marilyn|last2=Strathern | year = 2006 | title = Transactions and creations : property debates and the stimulus of Melanesia|page=115 | isbn = 1-57181-615-1 | publisher = Berghahn Books | location = New York}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Rivers of Papua New Guinea}}
[[Category:Rivers of Papua New Guinea]]
[[Category:Western Province (Papua New Guinea)]]
[[Category:Fly River]]

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