Haiti Poverty � Which causes Deforestation and Habitat Loss?

Haiti remains uncertain value of the claim, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere in the list, with 80% of the Caribbean population lives below the poverty line and 54% in extreme poverty. Sorry position of Haiti as the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world is directly related to the extraction of the natural environment of Haiti (less than 1.5% of the original forest coverage remains intact) and lack of governance structures; little capital, barriers to private investment and a vicious cycle of poverty.

 

All these factors together (and, unfortunately, feed each other, and associates), environmental degradation is undoubtedly one of the most immediate threats to Haiti.

The disastrous state of the environment are closely connected with deep institutional, policy and governance issues in accordance with Bernice Robertson, Haiti Crisis Group. Coherent national socioeconomic development measures were lacking, particularly through administrative and political boundaries and the narrow interests of the economic power of the company.

 

The main cause of environmental degradation in Haiti caused by Haitians demand for energy. In the electricity sector, covers only 10% of the population of Haiti in 2006, the chronic energy crisis helped Haitians to seek alternative sources of energy. Unfortunately, Haiti for the environment, forests and remains the main source of power in Haiti, contributed 70 percent of energy consumption in 2006. This has led to continued deforestation of Haiti, has lost about 6,000 hectares per year of soil erosion.

 

The loss of forest cover in Haiti has devastating consequences. In 2004, Hurricane Jeanne tore the island nation of over 3,000 dead, leaving in their wake.

Observers have noted that many of the dead in massive landslides with large amounts of water, causing death and cover leaching and swept the village, a trail of destruction behind them.

 

While the current focus of the author greener on emissions of greenhouse gases and climate change, and the island of Hispaniola (Haiti), it shares with the Dominican Republic is probably not an immediate danger of sinking beneath the waves and Haiti remains extremely fragile natural disasters such as extreme storms and resulting secondary disasters. Despite the fact that Haiti's forest cover is long gone, and the natural environment, almost naked, is the combination of errors that led to this tragedy, we must understand. Governance and poor planning are not in Haiti, and unfortunately, the environment or loss.