Puerto Rico
Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Puerto Rico is home to a magnificent array of diverse and unique ecosystems, including verdant rainforests and bioluminescent lagoons. But today less than 8 percent of Puerto Rico's natural land is permanently protected—far less than the 25 percent on the U.S. mainland. That's why The Trust for Public Land is working to conserve Puerto Rican landscapes critical to people, wildlife, water quality, and the tourism economy. Since 1991, we have helped safeguard a range of important sites across Puerto Rico, from the unspoiled mosaic of coral reefs, pristine beaches, and virgin forest in the northeast, to the salt flats, lagoons, and dry coastal forest of the southwest.
