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There are several protected areas of Guyana. The oldest protected area is the Kaieteur National Park which covers 627 square kilometres (242 sq mi). [1] In 2011, the National Protected Areas System (NPAS) was established. [2] As of 2020, about 8.4% of the country is protected. [3]
It has a total area of 33,747,545 hectares (83,392,000 acres). [3] The ecoregion lies on the Guiana Shield, an ancient upland area between the Amazon and Orinoco basins. It is surrounded by lowland grassy savannas and lowland forest. [3] All areas of the ecoregion contains enclaves of the Pantepuis ecoregion on the tops of table mountains. [4]
Protected areas of the Caribbean are significant in a region of particular ecological vulnerability, including the impact of climate change and the impact of tourism. [1]The University of the West Indies' "Caribbean Protected Areas Gateway" [2] supports informational resources for the 16 Caribbean member states of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
The protected area covers some 20,300 square kilometres (7,840 sq mi) for the central area (where full protection is enforced) and 13,600 square kilometres (5,250 sq mi) for the secondary area. Thus, the overall protected area represents some 33,900 square kilometres (13,090 sq mi) of rain forest .
The savannah is divided north from south, by the Kanuku Mountains, Guyana's most biologically diverse region. According to Conservation International, the "area supports a large percentage of Guyana’s biodiversity", including 250 species of bird life, 18 of which are native "only to the lowland forests of the Guianas." The savannah is teeming ...
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Navassa Island (/ n ə ˈ v æ s ə /; Haitian Creole: Lanavaz; French: Île de la Navasse, sometimes la Navase) is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea.Located east of Jamaica, south of Cuba, and 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) west of Jérémie on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, it is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which administers ...
Kaieteur National Park is a national park located in the Potaro-Siparuni Region of Guyana, roughly 633 km (393.33 miles) south of Georgetown, the nation's capital, closer to the border with Brazil than to the Caribbean coast. It is widely considered the country's only national park, [1] [2] as the capital's National Park is a not a true ...