Ecoregions of the Caribbean - Bahamian Dry Forests, Bahamian Pineyards, Caribbean Bioregion, Cuban Cactus Scrub, Cuban Dry Forests, Cuban Moist Fore (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Bahamian dry forests, Bahamian pineyards, Caribbean bioregion, Cuban cactus scrub, Cuban dry forests, Cuban moist forests, Cuban pine forests, El Yunque National Forest, Hispaniolan moist forests, Hispaniolan pine forests, Jamaican dry forests, List of ecoregions in Cuba, List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean, Northeast Ecological Corridor, Puerto Rican dry forests, Puerto Rican moist forests. Excerpt: The Northeast Ecological Corridor (NEC) refers to an area formerly designated as a protected Nature Reserve located on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico, between the municipalities of Luquillo and Fajardo. Specifically, the lands that comprise the NEC are located between Luquillo's town square to the west and Seven Seas Beach to the east, being delineated by PR Route # 3 to its south and the Atlantic Ocean to its north. It was decreed as a protected area by former Puerto Rico Governor Anibal S. Acevedo-Vila in April 2008, a decision reversed by Governor Luis G. Fortuno-Burset in October 2009, although a law passed in June 2012 re-designated as nature reserve two-thirds of its lands. The area comprises 2,969.64 acres (1201.77 hectares), which includes such diverse habitats as forests, wetlands, beaches, coral communities, and a bioluminescent lagoon. The Corridor is also home to 866 species of flora and fauna, of which 54 are considered critical elements, meaning rare, threatened, endangered and endemic species classified by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), some even designated as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). These include, among others, federally endangered species such as the Plain Pigeon, the Snowy Plover, the Puerto Rican Boa, the Hawksbill Sea Turtle and the West..."