By around 2035, all that forest is estimated to be gone, leaving Haiti’s wildlife—from endemic orchids to the Mozart’s frog—with no safe place to go. Or so, that’s the story the study tells.

New findings indicate that at current deforestation rates, all of Haiti’s primary forest will be gone within the next two decades, leading to the loss of most of the country’s endemic species ...

Converting waste paper into fuel briquettes might help stop the ongoing destruction of Haiti's remaining trees for charcoal ...

As a result, Haiti's 8 million poor have relentlessly hunted and chopped down huge amounts of forest, leaving denuded mountain slopes that rainwater washes down unimpeded.

The Haiti Forest partnership was created out of a recognized need to address environmental degradation and deforestation in a sustainable way.

Haiti’s story is largely one of habitat destruction — cutting down trees — but that’s just one of the components in an ongoing, worldwide mass extinction, driven by climate change, invasive species, ...

An important reforestation project is forging ahead in Haiti, despite the nation’s economic and political upheavals. Reforesting 50 hectares (124 acres) with native plants this year in Grand ...

The country’s foreign minister blames opposition politicians, while a Haitian journalist and a medical NGO weigh in. Also: Health coverage for children; maintaining forest ecosystems.

Around 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, have been impacted by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake which struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday morning, according to UNICEF.

In 1950, about 25 percent of Haiti's 10,700 square miles was covered with forest, said Victor, the agronomist. In 1987, it was 10 percent. By 1994, 4 percent.

It’s been nearly two months since Hurricane Matthew devoured Haiti where Iowa-based GoServ Global rescues the vulnerable – orphans, widows, abandoned babies, displaced families, etc. Shacks ...