class presentation

1. Deforestation in Haiti
by Christian Espinoza

2. Introducing the Topic
✤ Deforestation: the destruction of forest cover for use of
farming, agricultural plantation or parking lots.

3. Deforestation Facts
✤ Forests cover 30% of the earth’s land.
✤ It is estimated that within 100 years there will be no rainforests.
✤ Soil erosion, floods, wildlife extinction, increase in global
warming, and climate imbalance are few of the effects of
deforestation.
✤ Agriculture is the main cause of deforestation.
✤ Without trees, human life would not survive.

4. Haiti’s Deforestation Problem
✤ In 1923 over 60% of Haiti's land was forested.
✤ In 2006 less than 2% of the land was forested.
✤ Today less than 1.5% of its original tree cover remains
intact.
✤ Ranked as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere
and one of the poorest in the world which has been directly
attributed to the degradation of Haiti’s natural environment.

5. Affects the People
✤ Ranked as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere
and one of the poorest in the world which has been
directly attributed to the degradation of Haiti’s natural
environment.
✤ Deforestation has drastically worsened the impact of
hurricanes and tropical storms. Flooding, erosion and
mudslides when tropical storms hit.

6. Solving the Problem
✤ Haiti aims to plant 50 million trees a year in a pioneering
reforestation campaign to address one of the primary causes of
the country's poverty and ecological vulnerability.
✤ President Michel Martelly will launch the drive to double forest
cover by 2016 from the perilous level of 2%.
✤ "In three years, this level of planting will give us forest cover of
4.5%; in 10 years, it will be 8% to 10% and in 50 years, we
hope to be at the level of Cuba, a regional role model, and have
29%," Jean François Thomas, the environment minister, said.

7. Why I Choice this Topic
✤ Trees are life.
✤ Forests are home to millions of animals.
✤ An escape from the everyday life.