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Regional Overview of Caribbean Islands| TABLE 40. AREAS OF NATURAL FOREST IN THE CARIBBEAN | ||||||
| Area of forest (000s ha) | Total Area (000s | % of total land (see Table 38) | ||||
| Country |
Broadleaved 1980¹ |
Conifer* 1980
¹ |
ha) 1980 ¹ |
1920s² |
1970s |
1980
¹ |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 9 | - | 9 | - | - | 20.5 |
| Bahamas (including Turks and Caicos) | 40 | 283 | 323 | ?13 | ?28 | 30.9 |
| Cuba | 1255 | 200 | 1455 | 46 | 14 | 13.1 |
| Dominica | 41 | - | 41 | - | - | 54.6 |
| Dominican Republic | 444 | 185 | 629 | 77 | 23 | 13.0 |
| Grenada | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | 14.5 |
| Guadeloupe | 89 | - | 89 | ?12 | ?38 | 52.2 |
| Haiti | 36 | 12 | 48 | 60 | 7 | 1.7 |
| Jamaica | 67 | - | 67 | 30 | ?45 | 6.2 |
| Martinique | [3.2] | - | [3.2] | - | ?26 | [2.9] |
| Montserrat | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | 30.6 |
| Puerto Rico | 246 | - | 246 | ?20 | ?17 | 27.6 |
| St Kitts-Nevis | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | 19.2 |
| St Lucia | 8 | - | 8 | - | - | 13.0 |
| St Vincent | 12 | - | 12 | - | - | 30.8 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 208 | - | 208 | 59 | 46 | 43.0 |
| U.K. Virgin Islands | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | 22.7 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | [3] | - | [3] | - | - | [8.5] |
| Totals | 2524 | 680 | 3204 | 13.4 | ||
| Notes: | ||||||
| 1 Data for 1980 principally from FAO document FO:MISC/88/7. That publication lacks figures for Martinique and the U.S. Virgin Islands for which estimates [ ] have been entered from other sources. | ||||||
| 2 Data for 1920s from Zon and Sparhawk (1923); for 1970s from Persson (1974). Entries marked with "?" show trends inconsistent with the usual expectation of shrinkage of natural forest; perhaps other measurement criteria were applied. | ||||||
| * Natural forests of pine exist only in Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola. | ||||||