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The swamp Kaw, located in Guyana, is one of the largest nature reserves in France. We meet extremely rare birds, other less attractive but just as curious.
Surrounded by the Amazon rainforest, it is another green lung of Guyana, a vast waterlogged plain, crossed by a river. the Kaw marsh, or rather a flooded savannah, is the second largest national reserve in France. Hundreds of protected species, sometimes unique in the world, live in this still little-known territory. There are only a few of them to travel it, going up the stream in a canoe.
This natural sanctuary is however threatened, by climate change of course, but also by the moucou-moucou, a very invasive and very troublesome plant for fishing or navigating the marsh. Formerly this plant was burnt by the villagers of Kaw. But its inhabitants are aging and are less and less numerous. As a result, hardly anyone cuts these plants. For some, in 10 to 20 years, the moucou-moucou could have colonized the whole plain and upset the fragile balance of this flooded savannah.