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Article Excerpt
[The following article by Jane Regan is reprinted with the permission of Noticias Aliadas in Lima, Peru. It appeared in the July 14, 2004, edition of Latinamerica Press.]
A 10-foot-high mound of charcoal sacks heaped at Edmond Pierre's spot on the highway leading into Haiti's capital looks the same as ever. Sales are pretty good. He gets 400 gourdes, about US$12, for each bag containing the dirty black hunks of what were once part of an increasingly rare commodity here: a tree.
Once three-quarters forested, Haiti now has less than 1% tree cover. The deforestation is part of an ongoing environmental disaster that recently killed 2,700 people in Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic when rain rushed down treeless slopes and fatally flooded valleys (see NotiCen, 2004-01-29).
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