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Eco-Wonders
Mount Roraima
Eco Wonders
Guyana’s rainforest, which covers
approximately 75% of the
country, and over 16 million hectares,
is part of the last remaining tropical
forests in the world. Guyana’s ‘Green
Gold’, not only represents a home
to our indigenous peoples and rich
natural resources but a global asset
to address climate change. At a time
when tropical forests have become
a focal point of the climate agenda,
Guyana has been cautiously opening
a path to this lost world, revealing its
natural treasures, and indeed there
are still many more to be discovered.
KAIETEUR FALLS
Situated within Kaieteur National Park
on the Potaro River is the magnificent
Kaieteur (Falls), one of the world’s
natural wonders. Cascading 226
meters (741 feet) in a sheer drop,
Kaieteur is truly a majestic sight to
behold. The immediate environs of
Kaieteur is home to a number of rare,
threatened and endemic species,
principal among them being the
Golden Frog, whose entire life cycle
plays out in the water that collects
in the giant Tank Bromeliads -second
largest bromeliad in the world, the
Guianan Cock of the Rock and the
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