Grand Bois Rainforest Reserve

Morne Grand Bois is an isolated mountain in southwestern Haiti with original forest and a remarkable biodiversity. It is the highest mountain west of Les Anglais in the Département du Sud, and second highest in all the Tiburon Peninsula west of Jérémie and Les Anglais. It's unusual in having an elevated, bowl-shaped valley oriented towards the west, and in having 195 hectares above 1000 m, with significant tracts of original forest and at least one spring. Accessibility is difficult, therefore a helicopter was used to conduct biological surveys of the mountain in 2011 and 2013. The forests are being cut for building materials, slash-and-burn agriculture, and charcoal. We are continuing to learn more about the threats, methods used, and types of foods grown, so that we can help educate locals in better land use practices. SAH continued to collect socio-economic data to determine livelihood profiles and specific threats to the forest ecosystems. Traps were set to capture invasive rats and continued efforts wi