19°00′N70°42′W / 19°N 70.7°W / 19; -70.7
The Hispaniolan moist forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion on the island of Hispaniola. They cover 46,000 km2 (18,000 sq mi), around 60% of the island's area.[1]
Hispaniolan moist forests
Hills north of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Neotropical
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
Greater Antilles mangroves
Hispaniolan dry forests,
Hispaniolan pine forests
Geography
Area
45,350 km2 (17,510 sq mi)
Countries
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Conservation
Conservation status
Critical/endangered
Global 200
Greater Antillean moist forests
Protected
3,244 km2 (7%)[2]
^"Hispaniolan moist forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
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