Une Saison en Guyane | Aux rythmes de la Nature et des Hommes

Par Mathieu Entraygues

N°3 - Ecotourism

The Pripris de Yiyi, a RAMSAR site between Sinnamary and Iracoubo

An international eco-label The Ramsar Convention on wetlands is an intergovernmental treaty that was adopted on 2 February 1971 at Ramsar in Iran. It now concerns over 160 countries, including France which signed up in 1986. The Ramsar Convention works to conserve the various habitats...

Par Stana Sampson

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N°2 - Culture @en

Spathes or plant couture

Perhaps you have already met him. An unusual slender figure picking up the leaves around the Place des Palmistes. But for him they are not just leaves. The Roystonea regia or Cuban royal palm is not native to French Guiana. It has always had many...

Par Eudoxie JANTET

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N°3 - Ecotourism

Hiking on Mont Chauve Trekking to Saut Grand Machikou

Day 1 Five years later and we are back at Rochambeau airport ready for a second expedition. Two helicopter trips take our team of six adventurers and two guides to Mont Chauve. From the sky we quickly spot that what used to be virgin forest...

Par Mathieu Luglia, Eric Vidal, Daniel Guiral – Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et de Paléoécologie, Thomas Luglia - GEPOG

N°2 - Fauna

In search of the Agami heron the caiman marshes

From the estuary of the Amazon in Brazil as far as the Cayenne peninsular in French Guiana there are a large number of wetlands lying behind the mangrove forests in dips formed in the alluvial sea deposits from the Amazon. They make up a series...

Par Marc Gayot

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N°01 @en - Ecotourism

Forest trails Footpaths around Saül

Saül is already nearly 100 years old. The village sprang up due to gold mining, but intends to outlive it. It lies at the geographical centre of French Guiana, where a knot of springs give rise to three of the great rivers of country –...