Our National Heritage

Flora and Fauna of T&T

Trinidad
Climatic Zones
 Climate of T&T
Trinidad and Tobago has a tropical marine
climate, that is, a climate influenced by the
sea.
There are two main seasons the wet
seasonand the dry season.
The annual rainfall is 1000 to over 1500mm.
The temperature ranges from 25C to 35C.
The trade winds blow all year round.
Thetrade winds are moist as they have
passed over warm seas.
Effect of Climate
Environment People

Agriculture - the
choice of crops grown
Vegetation and animals raised
Animal life Clothing
Housing
Water resources Sports
Tourism
 Forests
Tropical Rainforests

Tropical Dry Forests

Rainforests
Tropical Rainforests
The tropical
rainforests
encompass some of
the most varied and
species-rich places
on earth.
The rainforests has
frequent rain
showers with a
minimum 2,000 mm
of rainfall a year.
 T&Ts Rainforests
Trinidads Tobago Rain
rainforests are Forest Reserve
located in the The oldest forest
higher mountain reserve in the
peaks of the western
Northern Range hemisphere is
located in the
central ranges of
Tobago
 Trinidads Tropical Dry
Forests

Tropical dry forests arelocated primarily in

western and southern parts ofTrinidad.
 Tropical Dry Forests
These forests occur in year-round warm
climates, where there is a wet and a dry season.

A couple of hundred centimetres of rain per

year is not uncommon in the wet or rainy
season but there is also a long dry seasons of
several months when there is little rain.

The trees shed their leaves to cope with the dry

season.
Tropical dry forest

The major areas of

tropical dry forest in
Trinidad include:
1. The Chaguaramas
peninsula
2. Areas along the
south coast of the
island, fromCedros
toMorne Diablo, and
3. Areas along the east
coast including parts
of Guayaguayare,
Mayaro & Manzanilla
Savannah
 Coastal Vegetation

Mangrove swamp
Coconut grove
 Coastal Vegetation

Marsh
land
Animals in Trinidads forests

Agouti
Birds
Paca/Agouti paca
Armadillo
Opossum (Mongoose)
Deer
Ocelots
Howler Monkey
Iguanas
 Butterflies

There are 617

types of
butterflies in
T&T.
Endangered Animals
Manatee
Leatherback Turtles
Flora of T&T
Hawaiian Torch
Butterfly Orchid