Guyana
Amazon basin · 6 protected areas · 110 Indigenous territories
The numbers
- Forest cover, whole country: 87.1% of land (2023, World Bank — national, not basin-only)
- Land area, whole country: 211,140 km² (2023)
- Population, whole country: 835,986 (2025)
- Protected areas in the basin: 6, 10,418 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
- Indigenous territories in the basin: 110, 31,830 km² by GIS area
- Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 63 page areas: 97
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
- Isseneru Tract A — 39 mining scars
- Kamarang Keng — 19 mining scars
- MOROWTA — 9 mining scars
- Waramadong — 8 mining scars
- Baramita — 6 mining scars
- Extended Kaieteur — 5 mining scars
- Karasabai (Homesteads) — 3 mining scars
- Monkey Mountain — 2 mining scars
Protected areas (6)
- Iwokrama — Protected Areas · 3,735 km²
- Kanuku Mts. — Parque Nacional · 3,657 km²
- Shell Beach — Parque Nacional · 1,191 km²
- C.I. Concession — Other Conversation Sites · 837 km²
- Extended Kaieteur — Parque Nacional · 620 km²
- Roraima — Parque Nacional · 378 km²
Indigenous territories with a page (57 largest of 110)
- Konashen (Homestead) · 6,249 km²
- Karasabai (Homesteads) · 1,735 km²
- Baramita · 971 km²
- Phillipai · 932 km²
- Kamarang Keng · 915 km²
- Paruima · 861 km²
- Katoka · 829 km²
- St. Cuthberth's · 640 km²
- MOROWTA · 581 km²
- Isseneru Tract A · 580 km²
- Aishalton · 566 km²
- Karaudanawa · 537 km²
- Akawini · 512 km²
- Yupukari Extension · 507 km²
- Kurukabaru · 494 km²
- Rewa · 489 km²
- Crash Water · 488 km²
- Annai · 466 km²
- Achiwuib · 463 km²
- Rupanau · 453 km²
- Apoteri Tract A · 430 km²
- Shea · 430 km²
- Shulinab (Macusi) · 384 km²
- Wakapau · 382 km²
- Sand Creek · 363 km²
- Waikrebi · 351 km²
- Awariwaunau · 347 km²
- Maruranau · 335 km²
- Kaikan · 326 km²
- Waramadong · 308 km²
- Paramakatoi · 300 km²
- Jawalla · 278 km²
- Muritaro · 260 km²
- Wiruni Block 0222 · 249 km²
- Nappi · 245 km²
- Kato · 243 km²
- Yarakita · 243 km²
- Monkey Mountain · 240 km²
- Orealla — ARAWAK AND WARRAU · 232 km²
- Fair View · 225 km²
- Potarinau (Ambrose) · 222 km²
- Kwabanna · 209 km²
- Malali · 204 km²
- Sawariwau · 196 km²
- Kanapang · 188 km²
- Moco Moco · 185 km²
- Santa Aratak · 175 km²
- Itabac · 175 km²
- Rivers View/Falmouth · 172 km²
- Karisparu · 170 km²
- Massara Tract A · 169 km²
- Wikki/Calcuni · 169 km²
- Santa Rosa · 164 km²
- St Ignatius Farm Lands · 162 km²
- Warapoka Extension · 159 km²
- Annai Extension · 156 km²
- Kamana · 153 km²
See it live
- Open the live map — alerts, fires, mining and the 12-month timeline
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Defended by people in Guyana
- Rainforest Foundation US — territorial monitoring tech in Indigenous hands
- Amazon Watch — campaigns with Indigenous federations against extractive projects
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