French Guiana
Amazon basin · 21 protected areas · 0 Indigenous territories
The numbers
- Protected areas in the basin: 21, 51,778 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
- Indigenous territories in the basin: 0, 0 km² by GIS area
- Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 21 page areas: 242
As of 2026-09-12. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.
Under the most pressure
- Parc Amazonien de Guyane — 80 mining scars
- Lucifer Dékou-Dékou — 59 mining scars
- Parc Amazonien de Guyane — 53 mining scars
- Parc Naturel Régional de la Guyane — 50 mining scars
- Abattis et Montagne Kotika — 8 mining scars
- Kaw-Roura — 3 mining scars
- Nouragues — 2 mining scars
Protected areas (21)
- Parc Amazonien de Guyane — Parque Nacional · 20,600 km²
- Parc Amazonien de Guyane — Parque Nacional · 13,374 km²
- Parc Naturel Régional de la Guyane — Parque Natural Regional · 12,790 km²
- Lucifer Dékou-Dékou — Reserva Biológica de Floresta · 1,116 km²
- Nouragues — Reserva Natural · 1,055 km²
- Kaw-Roura — Reserva Nacional Natural · 881 km²
- Trinité — Reserva Natural · 770 km²
- Abattis et Montagne Kotika — Monumento Natural · 333 km²
- Forêt des Sables Blancs de Mana — Área de Relevante Interesse Ecológico · 260 km²
- Bassin versant et chutes de la crique Voltaire — Monumento Natural · 180 km²
- Amana — Reserva Natural · 164 km²
- Marais de Yiyi — Sítio Natural · 92 km²
- Île du Grand Connétable — Reserva Natural · 78 km²
- Fondation TRESOR — Reserva Natural da Região · 23 km²
- Mont Grand Matoury, du lac des américains et de la plaine de la crique Bernard — Reserva Natural · 23 km²
- Pointe Isére - Kanawa — Sítio Natural · 13 km²
- Piste de l'Anse — protected area · 12 km²
- Montagne d'Argent — protected area · 7 km²
- Piste de l'Anse — protected area · 6 km²
- Petit Cayenne — protected area · 1 km²
- Piste de l'Anse — protected area · 0 km²
See it live
- Open the live map — alerts, fires, mining and the 12-month timeline
- Open the 3D globe — click French Guiana for its stat card with Red-List species
Defended by people in French Guiana
- Amazon Watch — campaigns with Indigenous federations against extractive projects
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Elsewhere
- Live dashboard — the 2D map with every layer and the 12-month timeline
- Earth Explorer — the 3D globe and curated places
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