Results indicate primary forest cover in Haiti shrank from 4.4 percent in 1988 to just 0.32 percent in 2016, and that 42 of Haiti’s 50 largest mountains have lost all of their primary forest cover.

The study authors, who work with the Haiti Audubon Society, Temple University, the U.S. Forest Service, and Oregon State University, expect Haiti to lose up to 83 percent of its species by 2036.

“Haiti’s story ought to resonate,” Pimm said. “It’s a lesson that we need to heed, in terms of managing our own wild areas, our own watersheds and rivers.” With so little original forest left in Haiti ...

Haiti’s tree loss is tied today to its poverty: much of its tropical forest has been cut to make charcoal, for slash-and-burn agriculture, and for building materials.

Haiti Forest has full support of the Government of Haiti and is in line with the priorities of the Government to support long-term reconstruction efforts, ...

The recycling initiative could also be key to ending Haiti's dangerous overreliance on charcoal for energy -- responsible for the loss of 98 percent of the nation's forests.

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.

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.

pq Entire forests were shipped to Europe to make furniture and dyes. GONAIVES, Haiti - The torrents of water that raged down onto this city, killing hundreds of people, are testimony to a man-made ...

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.

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 ...