Country

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

Trinidad and Tobago has its own pair of named ecoregions. The Trinidad and Tobago moist forest, tropical moist broadleaf forest of the Neotropic realm, covers most of both islands, from Trinidad's Northern Range to Tobago's forested ridge; the much smaller Trinidad and Tobago dry forest occupies the leeward, rain-shadowed corners. The islands sit at the continental edge of the Caribbean, and their flora reads more South American than Antillean. Climate is warm year-round with a wet season and a drier stretch early in the year, more pronounced in the dry-forest pockets. Gardeners can grow the full humid-tropical range across most of the islands, reserving drought-tolerant choices for the dry leeward zones. The dry forest, rated Nature Could Recover, is the scarcer of the two.