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For this year’s observance of International Environment Day the United Nations is focusing on the plight of forests worldwide. In Haiti, there remains less than one percent tree cover. Most deforestation is caused by the local population’s need for land to farm, wood to build with, and charcoal to cook with. The result has left immense tracks of land bare to the elements, hastened massive soil erosion and increased land slides and flash flooding.
View of a deforested hilltop near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

A member of the peasant association from a community in the Harerge Province, east of Addis Ababa, guards the land against vandals.
With the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Government of Ethiopia has launched a massive reafforestation to counteract serious soil erosion and degradation, declining agricultural production and widespread famine. The programme is specifically designed to study the adaptability of various tree species to the country's diverse bioclimatic zones and eventually lead to a better integration of agriculture and forestry.

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Headline Only One Earth - The Environment

Caption Description Pollution of the environment has become so widespread that all forms of life are threatened. In June 1972 representatives of some 130 nations met in Stockholm for an unprecedented meeting under the auspices of the United Nations to seek ways of translating their concern about the deterioration of conditions on our planet into a global attack on the problem.
The early morning sun rising over the fogbound farms and hills of Pennsylvania Dutch County. The Dutch County farmers, descendents of early German (Deutsch) and Swiss settlers still maintain many early customs. [No exact date]

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Production Date 01/01/1975 5:16:37 PM

City/Location Lancaster

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/John Isaac

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