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, 10,374 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 37 page areas: 91
As of 2026-08-23. 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
- Iwokrama — 1 mining scars
Protected areas (6)
- Iwokrama — Protected Areas · 3,734 km²
- Kanuku Mts. — PN · 3,657 km²
- Shell Beach — PN · 1,191 km²
- C.I. Concession — Other Conversation Sites · 834 km²
- Extended Kaieteur — PN · 620 km²
- Roraima — PN · 338 km²
Indigenous territories with a page (31 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
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- Open the live map — alerts, fires, mining and the 12-month timeline
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