Why is the island referred to as the nature island?

Let's say if Christopher Columbus were to come back, Dominica would be the only island he would recognize.

we are a very mountainous island and kind of a breed apart, so to speak, from the sun, sand, and sea of the Caribbean.

We have all of that, but we also have the rainforest.

Close to two-thirds of the landmass in Dominica is oceanic rainforest.

And so with the natural assets of hills and mountains and valleys and rivers that we have it just seemed natural to be tagged the nature island of the caribbean there has been development obviously but because such a vast amount of the land mass is in fact oceanic rainforest which we have about three or four national parks protected areas the like it is still recognizable and called the Caribbean of old, so to speak, the way the Caribbean used to be.

So you get a little of both.

We learned that Dominica's cultural landscape is comprised of a rich mosaic of indigenous people and Europeans.