The Dolphin Head Nature Trail is a sustainable eco-tourism initiative, that helps provide employment to the local farmers, while  serving as a tool for educating locals and tourists about the ecological value of the Dolphin Head region and its conservation.  The Nature Trail merges the best of Jamaican nature, culture and science.

At the heart of the Dolphin Head Hiking Trail's establishment is the pressing need to safeguard the region's biological resources.  Driven to the forest interior for subsistence harvesting, stakeholders have unwittingly jeopardized the future of known and yet-to-be discovered resources.

Forest Protectors

By creating a nucleus of economic activity outside the boundaries of the forest interior (tourism employment), the Trust is generating viable market incentives to shift from destructive environmental practices.  The Hiking Trail plays a critical role by creating alternative employment options for skilled forest stakeholders, while generating a socially conducive atmosphere for longer-term forest conservation plans. 

Forest Management

The Hiking Trail and Live Botanical Museum complement the Trust’s integrated forest management strategy by laying the framework for community-based natural resource management, alternative livelihood development, experiential education opportunities, and most importantly, in-situ conservation through the propagation of endemic species.