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Scientific

Institut de Recherche pour le Development (ORSTOM) , Cayenne French Guiana (CAY). You may also search their AUBLET2 database of plant names and collections.

Fungal and Plant Diversity of Central French Guiana, New York Botanical Garden (NY)

Neotropical Blueberries: The plant family Ericaceae, by Dr. James L. Luteyn, The New York Botanical Garden (NY)

Ericaceae: Blueberries, Heathers and Rhododendrons, Dr. K.A. Kron, Wake Forest University

Flora of the Guianas, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Utrecht (U)

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Missouri Botanical Garden (MO)

Climbers of Guyana, a vegetative characters key to lianas by Niels Raes and Renske EK of Utrecht (U).

Birds in Suriname, Photos, sounds, distribution maps and general information by Jan Ribot


Enjoying the top of Mt. Ayanganna, Photo Terry Henkel
Enjoying the top of Mt. Ayanganna.
Photo Terry Henkel

Conservation

Guyana EPA, includes permitting information

The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, select Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, or any other country

Conservation International, Guianas Conservation Region

Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development

Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society

The Guyana Zoo, which has a long-term collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, among others.

Tropenbos Guyana Programme

World Resources Institute, Profit without Plunder

Foundation for Nature Conservation in Suriname

Amazon Conservation Team

Guiana Shield Media Project

The Convention on Biological Diversity website

UNEP Envionment Profile information on Guyana

The Rupununi Savanna, west central Guyana, Photo Terry Henkel
The Rupununi Savanna, west central Guyana.
Photo Terry Henkel

Education and Ecotourism

Natural Selection, Hand-picked links about the natural world, co-ordinated by The Natural History Museum, London.

Guyana: An undiscovered Eden, by Rod Lopez-Fabrega

The Making of the Tepuis Film : 'The Living Edens: The Lost World'

Guianan Red-Cotinga (Phoenicircus carnifex), courtesy Smithsonian
Division of Birds
Guianan Red-Cotinga (Phoenicircus carnifex).
Photo courtesy Smithsonian Division of Birds

People, News, and Information

Guyana News and Information, a diverse link page

The Starbroek News

The Guyana Chronicle

The World Factbook - Guyana

Map of Guyana with relief and political divisions, from Texas A&M University Library (417K)

Grasshopper, Photo Terry Henkel
Grasshopper. Photo Terry Henkel


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