By around 2035, all that forest is estimated to be gone, leaving Haiti’s wildlife—from endemic orchids to the Mozart’s frog—with no safe place to go. Or so, that’s the story the study tells.

Analysis of satellite imagery and aerial photographs indicate that all of Haiti’s remaining primary forest will disappear in less than two decades if current deforestation rates continue.

“People working in Haiti could see there was very little forest left,” he said. “None of us really expected it to disappear that quickly.” In this 2017 photo, piles of freshly-made charcoal sit in a ...

Most Haitians are descendants of African slaves brought over in the late 1600s by French colonizers who destroyed tens of thousands of acres of virgin forest to plant the cane that made Haiti the ...

Currently the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti has lost almost the entirety of its ecosystems. Less than 1% of the nation’s primary forest is thought to remain, with less than ...

Ten thousand hectares of land are being promised by the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to develop the new, bold Haiti Forest Initiative in the Artibonite and northern part of the country.

The Carrefour Feuilles initiative is arguably unique, holding the potential to transform the national economy and halt Haiti's most serious environmental problem, deforestation. Here is how it ...

Also: Health coverage for children; maintaining forest ecosystems. To the Editor: Re “All but Poverty and Despair Is at a Halt in Haiti” (front page, Oct. 21): After decades without the living ...

As a result, Haiti's 8 million poor have relentlessly hunted and chopped down huge amounts of forest, leaving denuded mountain slopes that rainwater washes down unimpeded. Back in 1980 ...

In the forest they experienced perhaps the most terrifying event of their ordeal -- when they suspected their captors were digging makeshift graves. MORE: Haiti's interim prime minister says ...

Most Haitians are descendants of African slaves brought in the late 1600s by French colonizers who destroyed tens of thousands of acres of virgin forest to plant the cane that made Haiti the world ...