Environment of Haiti

Directions:

Research: Read through, watch, and listen to the resources below. Use the questions to help guide your understanding. Make sure to take notes, citing the source you are taking notes on.

What is the climate of Haiti?
Describe the different ecosystems of Haiti and include a food web for each.
How have natural disasters impacted Haiti’s ecosystems?

Haitians are noticing climate change impacts on extreme weather and agriculture | John AbrahamJohn Abraham: Zacharie Bien-Aime documents his observations of a changing Haitian climate.

EnvironmentU.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assistance is to helps Haiti protect its fragile environment and conserve its precious resources. Focused on sustainable change, USAID promotes environmentally friendly activities that focus on resilience, community-based solutions, and market-based financial development.

Haiti’s biodiversity threatened by nearly complete loss of primary forestThe loss of forest from human activities is a global threat to biodiversity, continually diminishing populations of forest-dwelling species. However, species extinction usually is delayed until the last habitats disappear. Nonetheless, mass extinction may be imminent in a small number of tropical countries with low forest cover. Here, we find that Haiti has less than 1% of its original primary forest and is therefore among the most deforested countries in the world. Forty-two of the 50 highest and largest mountains have lost all primary forest. Our surveys of vertebrates on these mountaintops suggest that endemic species have been lost along with the loss of forest. This indicates that Haiti is already undergoing a mass extinction of its biodiversity because of deforestation.

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