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Brought to you from the forthcoming book by renowned historian
Dr. Lennox Honychurch.
Secondary Forest (E)
What was once virgin forest on Dominica that has been disturbed by agriculture or the felling of timber at some time during the last five hundred years and which has then been abandoned and taken over by the forest once more. Large tracts of Dominicas forests are therefore secondary forest. Whole areas, such as the Cabrits, were once cleared of trees and, since the 1850s, the forest has reclaimed the headland. Thousands of acres of abandoned plantation land are now in secondary forest at different stages of re-growth. The first plants to reclaim abandoned land are razor grass, tree ferns and balizier, then Bwa Cano and Bwa Flo, and then a variety of forest trees growing back gradually to mature forest once more. Some 64% of Dominicas forested lands are actually under private ownership, much of it secondary forest.
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