The Tree Bank Hispaniola is a partnership between the Earth Sangha and the Asociación de Productores de Bosque Los Cerezos, a farmers’ co-op in the mountains of the Dajabon province in the Dominican Republic, not far from the Haitian border. We work with smallholder farmers to promote sustainable agriculture and alleviate poverty as a means of forest conservation and restoration.
Tropical forests on the island of Hispaniola are part of the Caribbean global biodiversity hotspot and are home to many endemic species of plants, birds, reptiles, and amphibians; that is, these species cannot be found anywhere else in the world. These forests, however, are under threat from rapid deforestation, largely caused by agricultural activities.
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