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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.
Flowering fields in late June, in southeast Iceland.
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Headline The United Nations' Care for Palestine Refugees 
Caption Description The sand dunes of the Gaza Strip presented a barren prospect to UNRWA in its efforts to provide employment for the refugees there, 70% of whom were farmers. An answer was found, however, in the mimosa tree, a quick growing, bushy tree which, in as little as three years, can stabilize shifting sands by covering them with waving green thickets; almost immediately grasses and other low vegetation will begin to sprout.
Refugees planting seedlings on a sand dune near Gaza. May 1957. 
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NICA ID 132414 
Production Date 05/01/1957 10:27:41 AM 
Credit UN Photo/Jorgen Grinde
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