Country

Fiji: 2 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

A wet side and a dry side define Fiji. The Fiji tropical moist forests cover the windward, rain-catching flanks of the islands, while the Fiji tropical dry forests, ranked Nature Could Recover, hold the leeward rain-shadow zones. Both are endemic to the archipelago, so the country's two ecoregions are entirely its own. Temperature barely varies in this Oceanian tropical climate; rainfall exposure is everything. Gardeners on the windward coasts work with a true rainforest palette of moisture-loving trees and lush understory, while leeward sites call for plants that ride out a pronounced dry season. Because the dry forests are the rarer and more recovery-dependent of the pair, dry-side plantings that use native dry-forest species do double duty as habitat.