After the earthquake: Haiti’s deforestation needs attention

The Christian Science Monitor

By Moises Velasquez-Manoff

January 20, 2010

[…] Seventy-one percent of all fuel consumed in Haiti is wood or charcoal, according to the US Agency for International Development. Every year, the country’s 9 million (and growing) inhabitants burn a quantity of wood and charcoal equal to 30 million trees. That’s 20 million more trees than Haiti grows yearly. […]

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