Abstract

What happened to Haiti’s forest? Why is it important that we learn about the fall of Haiti’s forest? What can this tell us about ourselves? I believe the lack of environmental regulations and the reliance on unsustainable harvested biomass energy can and will be lead to desolate future for Haiti and add to the climatic changes the worlds’ future. The government only protects 4% of the land, allowing anybody to tear down the forest. Destructing the rain forest and not having any regulations for it, is a problem not just for local habitat but also for global climate. A trees’ mass is about 50% carbon and taking away a carbon sink, inevitably creating a build up of CO2 in the atmosphere leading to climate change. Forestry Management is necessary to Haiti , because in a location so vulnerable to hurricanes and earthquakes, trees provide other ecosystem services such as mitigation of floods and erosion. Over the years, natural disasters have affected the people more and more. Cities have become desolate and uninhabitable. All of the tree loss and desolation has lead to the destruction of the rain forests’ Ecosystem Services. Everybody is destroying the land and soon, they will run out of land to destroy. If every country worked together, we could save ourselves.
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