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Main Ridge Forest Reserve
Home to a number of endemic species of flora and fauna, the Main Ridge Forest Reserve in Tobago is
the oldest forest reserve in the Western Hemisphere. UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the rainforest
provides habitats for twelve to sixteen species of mammals, twenty-four non-poisonous snakes,
sixteen lizards and two hundred and ten species of birds, the most outstanding being the White-tailed
Sabrewing Hummingbird that is both rare and endemic to Tobago. The Ridge is also home to the
ocellated gecko, an animal that is not found anywhere else in the world.

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