New Caledonia rain forests
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The New Caledonia rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion, located in New Caledonia in the South Pacific. It is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion, part of the Australasian realm.
Tree ferns on Isle of Pines
Original distribution area of Melaleuca quinquenervia or Niaouli
Nothofagus is a plant genus that illustrates Gondwanan distribution, having descended from the supercontinent and existing in current day Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Chile. Fossils have also recently been found in Antarctica.
The biodiversity of New Caledonia is of exceptional biological and paleoecological interest. It is frequently referred to as a biodiversity hotspot. The territory is a large South Pacific archipelago
New Caledonia rain forests
…km2), and Parc des Grandes Fougères (45.45 km2). Parc de la Zone Côtière Ouest (2552.68 km2) is partly in the New Caledonia dry forests ecoregion. Biodiversity of New Caledonia Flannery, Tim (1994). The Future Eaters. Grove Press, New York…
Mining vista
Many current species in the vicinity of the Pacific Island region similar to New Zealand's geckos, such as the Duvaucel's gecko, may have had their origins in New Caledonia.
Typical terrain in the south of the islands at Grand Terre