IN PICTURES: Hurricane Maria decimates Dominica’s rainforest

Dominica’s famed rainforest received a massive blow during the passage of Hurricane Maria on September 18.

Entire sections of the rainforest were stripped bare of leaves and branches and in some places even the floor of the forest appears scorched.

Photos below were taken one month and a week after Maria.

Some were taken on the Imperial Road, others on the Dr. Nicholas Liverpool Highway (running through Belles) and others on the road from Pont Casse to Castle Bruce.

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9 Comments

  1. zouklv
    November 4, 2017

    Maria did not decimate the forest it cleaned it…The Plants knew of the wickedness and extreme Evil on the land and it was washed away . The trees and plants will grow back fresh new a rebirth …Judgement and Blessings!!

  2. anonymous2
    November 3, 2017

    It will return within 6 months.

  3. November 1, 2017

    This country is blessed with one of the richest soils in the world and it’s abundance of water. Nature has a way of Cleaning and Healing it’s self; least our people continue to be ignorant and stupid still; Dominica will be green again the Almighty has promised us that.

    • Sustainability = Depopulation = Death
      November 2, 2017

      Maria was not a hurricane. It was a weapon of mass destruction unleashed upon us via CERN/ HAARP technologies to hammer in the ‘climate change’ message – that it is us, Dominicans that need to stop consuming to ‘save the planet” and reduce ‘global warming”.

      No ordinary hurricane could have done this kind of damage to a country. Sadly, the country’s nature will never recover. It has been permanently poisoned to drive us in the UN’s Agenda 2030 which Dr. Skerrit has already signed us into hook line and sinker! May the rest in eternal hell.

  4. Bee
    November 1, 2017

    OMG It looked like we had one of those forest fires that Smokey Bear talks about. The silver lining though, is that the green is starting to come through.

  5. zandoli
    November 1, 2017

    Nature gives and sometimes it takes away. But it has a way of rebounding.

  6. analy thomas
    November 1, 2017

    Within three years we will be almost 100% restored and the economy and way of life will also be well on the way. The question remains, where will God be in our lives?

  7. Jahknow
    November 1, 2017

    The new growth will be rapid andshe will soon return to her former beauty. Watch for all the growth of breadfruit and banana suckers…

  8. derp
    November 1, 2017

    it’s already started to turn green though

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