Date 25 March 2021
Pages 142
Format cm 25 x 29
Price € 25.00
EAN 9782759232741
Publisher Website www.quae.com

Oyapock and Maroni

Portraits of Amazonian Estuaries
Publisher Quae
La Guyane doit relever aujourd'hui de nombreux défis environnementaux, humains et économiques.

In French Guiana, 220 miles of coastline stretch between the estuaries of the Oyapock and Maroni rivers, a highly unstable region of silt banks formed from sediment carried up and down the shore from the Amazon delta in Brazil. Here, a mangrove forest has taken root, among the best-preserved in the world, at the heart of a high-stakes environmental debate due to its role as feeding and breeding grounds for many species, and its capacity for carbon sequestration.
This richly illustrated work is at once a showcase for the Guiana coastline and its exceptional estuaries, as well as an invitation to rethink the interactions between humans and their environment.