UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
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Features of Natural Interest

The dry tropical forest ecosystem is one of the most threatened habitats in the world. This ecosystem has not been studied extensively. Those studies done indicate that there will be many endemic invertebrates.

Tropical dry forest (here in East Caicos) is a rare, but greatly undervalued, ecosystem.


© Dr Mike Pienkowski
(Features of Natural Interest, 11 of 17 - Slide ref. 357)