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October 11, 2005

 

Photo: Natural Forest

Natural Forest, Dominica, 1996

Photograph by Michael Melford

Scores of rivers and rich volcanic soil make for a green, green landscape on the Caribbean island of Dominica. The place looks more Hawaiian than Carribean. A full 60 percent of Dominica's natural forest cover survives today.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Dominica," November/December 1996, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

 

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