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Welcome to Guyana Naturally News,
We're pleased to welcome you to the tenth edition of our newsletter. For this edition, we're focusing on Guyana’s Rupununi Savannah, which in the words of Dr. Graham Watkins, “is one of the last great wilderness areas in the world.” We hope you enjoy our profile of Graham, as well as an overview of the North Rupununi and a look at one of the savannah’s oddest animals, the Giant Anteater. We then encourage you to revisit past editions of our newsletter to find a range of information that will help you plan your adventure to the unspoiled wilderness of Guyana.
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions about how to improve both our newsletter and our website. For those of you who have visited Guyana, we invite you to send your trip reports, photos, videos, and tips from your travels to Guyana.
Happy Reading!
IN THIS ISSUE
IN THE NEWS: The latest tourism-related news from Guyana
NATURE SITES: North Rupununi
GUYANA FAUNA: Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
TOURISM PERSONALITIES:
Dr. Graham Watkins
IN THE NEWS
Nearly 360 Bird Species Seen on Tourism Familiarization Trip
Guyana Featured at the 2010 Educational Travel Conference
Representatives from the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative (GSTI) and the Guyana-based tour operator, Wilderness Explorers, recently represented Guyana at the 2010 Educational Travel Conference (ETC) in Providence, Rhode Island…more>>Guyana: The Word is Spreading
President Jagdeo Receives 2010 Champions of the Earth Award
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo received the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2010 Champions of the Earth award, the UN's highest award for environmental leadership…more>>
Surama Village's Sydney Allicock Receives Prestigious Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence
Guyana’s leading environmental and community leader, Sydney Allicock, recently added to his long list of awards when he accepted the prestigious Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence on April 17 in Trinidad…more>>Katie Spotz, the Youngest Person to Row an Entire Ocean Solo, Lands Safely in Guyana
Pick of the Flock
For this issue’s Pick of the Flock, we’re sticking with our Rupununi theme and highlighting a new website by Graham Watkins…more>>NATURE SITES
North Rupununi
GUYANA FAUNA
Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
Like many of Guyana’s giants – Jaguar, Harpy Eagle, Anaconda, to name a few – if you’re lucky enough to see a Giant Anteater sauntering across the savannahs, chances are you won’t have to ask your guide what it is. Full grown, Giant Anteaters weigh from 65 to 140 pounds (29 to 65 kg) and reach an overall length between six and eight feet, and that’s not including this odd creature’s two-foot-long tongue…more>>
TOURISM PERSONALITIES
Dr. Graham Watkins
Graham is a Guyanese-born British biologist who has spent most of his life working in tropical South America, mainly in Guyana and Ecuador. He was the Executive Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation in Galapagos from 2005 to 2009 and prior to that was the Director General of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development in Guyana. Graham has worked in Guyana for more than ten years to ensure the conservation of the North Rupununi Wetlands – the subject of his newest book due out in October 2010, Rupununi, Rediscovering a Lost World, featuring photographs by Pete Oxford and Renee Bish… more>>
