WWF - About WWF Guianas

WWF Guianas is a program office that is a part of the WWF global network. We operate in the Guianas, with our head office located in Suriname. We have 2 satellite offices, one in Guyana and the other in French Guiana. Situated in the north-eastern part of South America, the area known as the Guianas is made up of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. The Guianas have their borders with Brazil and are part of the wider Amazon region.

WWF Guianas rests on WWF's mission to "conserve nature and ecological processes by ensuring that the use of renewable resources is sustainable both now and in the longer term".

In order to fulfill its mission to conserve the Earth’s biodiversity, in 1998 WWF identified 238 ecoregions representing the highest priorities for conservation worldwide, among them the Guianan Moist Forests Ecoregion.

These ecoregions, widely known as the Global 200, are a collection of the Earth's most outstanding and diverse habitats or areas where its biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where biological loss will be most severely felt, and where WWF's conservation efforts must concentrate.

The WWF Guianas Program is a WWF conservation initiative launched in 1998, covering the three Guianas (Suriname, French Guyana and Guyana) and targeting the Guianan Ecoregion complex (Guianan Moist Forests Ecoregion, Guianan Freshwater Ecoregion and Guianan-Amazon Mangrove Ecoregion).

It operates through partnerships with local communities, private and public sector institutions, international NGOs and funding organizations to achieve nature conservation and sustainable use of the region’s natural resources.

Mission

CONSERVE THE DISTINCT NATURAL COMMUNITIES, ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENON AND MAINTAIN VIABLE POPULATIONS OF SPECIES OF THE GUIANAS IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN IMPORTANT ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND SERVICES THAT MAINTAIN BIODIVERSITY, WHILE SUPPORTING THE REGION'S SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

WWF's mission is to conserve nature and ecological processes, to seek the sustainable use of natural resources, and to promote the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption while recognizing and respecting human needs and livelihoods. Our aim is to slow down, and eventually reverse, the accelerating degradation of our planet's natural environment; and to help build the future in which people live in harmony with nature.