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Suriname's Flora and Fauna are diversified and predominant because of the presence of the rainforest.  Over six thousand species of plants have been reported from one square kilometer tract of forest, and there are close to a thousand species of birds spread around it.




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Suriname
Flora and Fauna
Suriname contains various species of flowers and water lilies and the orchids are the most common and famous ones. The tropical shrubs of the Suriname include hibiscus, bougainvillea and the oleander.
The best-known of all Amazon trees is the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), known as seringuera in Suriname. Still a valuable export in Suriname today, a hundred years ago the rubber tree was the key to the Amazon’s initial exploitation. Also familiar is the Suriname nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa), which grows to 30m and takes over ten years to reach nut-bearing maturity; once this is reached, a single specimen can produce over 450kg of nuts every year.
Good areas for spotting wildlife in the Amazon are the richly diverse river banks and flood plains: here you are likely to see caymans, macaws and toucans, and you should catch sight, too, of one of a variety of hawks. With luck and observation you may spot a river dolphin, capybara or maybe even one of the jungle cats. In the jungle you’re more likely to find mammals such as the pecary (wild pig), tapir, tamandua tree sloth and, very rarely, the second-largest cat in the world, the powerful spotted jaguar. In general though, the open spaces of the Pantanal are better for spotting wildlife than the Amazon, where movement through the rainforest is limited to narrow trails and rivers.