Virgin tropical rainforests of French Guiana

KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA - OCTOBER 08: A view of the back waters of the Amazon River. French Guiana is haven for plants and animals with ninety percent of the area under tropical rainforests, the country has about 1,064 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles, according to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Several endemic frogs live in the forests. The forests are part of the larger Amazon basin. The country lost just 2.6 percent of its forest cover between 1990 and 2005, the lowest loss in South America. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)