The Future of Suriname’s Rainforests

Mongabay
Jun 15, 2026, 11:04 am123 ptsTrending
Suriname remains an outlier in the Amazon Basin: more than 90% of the country is still covered by rainforest, making it one of the few nations in the world that remains a net carbon sink. But a wave of development proposals — from large-scale agriculture and Mennonite farming settlements, to mining projects…

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