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| Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
| PLant cover in Haiti at two percent: UN official |
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) Deforestation in Haiti, where trees and bushes are routinely
felled for cooking fuel, is at crisis level, with just two-percent plant cover now, the UN
warned Thursday.
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| A Haitian woman is seen chopping wood. (AFP Photo) |
"There is a real urgency, and measures need to be taken ... plant cover is down to
about two percent," UN Development Program official in Haiti, Joel Boutroue, said.
Most people in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, live on less than two
dollars a day, and they use wood for fires to cook. The result has been widespread
deforestation and erosion.
Boutroue pressed the Haitian government and international groups to act quickly to
foster re-forestation and runoff control programs, without which he said he feared Haiti
could sink even further into poverty.
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