Suriname

Suriname ForestSuriname sits in the Northeast of South-America, one of the few spots in the world where the tropical rainforest is still completely virgin. Here you still find two of the authentic cultures of the original inhabitants, the Amerindians, and the Maroons. The Maroons being the descendants from slaves who managed to escape and settled in the virgin forest.

Suriname is ideally suited for the conservation of it’s unique neo tropical Rainforest biome. While a relatively small country, it has one of the highest percentages of tropical cover in the world with over 80 percent of the total area covered by forests and a rate of destruction under 0.1 percent annually. It has nine times the forest size of Costa Rica and more tropical forest than all but four African countries.

With almost 3.000 miles of waterways, Suriname is also known for being a land of winding and turbulent rivers. Less known, but just as intriguing, are the rich savannahs, coastal plains and swamplands. On the coastline each year from February through August, sea turtles such as the leatherback, make landfall and hatch their young.

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