The Pacific Island biome represents the diverse landscape of a volcanically formed island. Climate and elevation play a critical role in these islands ecosystems and have created micro-climates and niche environments. Many of the pacific islands are hosts to plants found nowhere else in the world. Visitors enter the Pacific Island biome in the cloud forest zone that showcases the tall, emergent trees that form the canopy. Continuing down the winding path, visitors enter the tree fern area with giant prehistoric specimens that are living relics from the Carboniferous Period. They genetically date back nearly 350 million years. Proceed under the waterfall covered bridge into the Lowlands climate zone to the Koi pond. Don’t forget to look up and count the coconuts on the Coconut palm or marvel at the scrumptious bananas that grow year round in this area.
