United Nations Photo

Linked assets

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.

Unique ID UN7ALB50459

Conceptually similar

Air Pollution: Romania

01/01/1991 23:30:06

Unique ID UN7606147

The Human Environment - New Challenge for the United Nations

01/01/1972 11:32:33

Unique ID UN7541216

Environment - USA

01/01/1971 13:18:43

Unique ID UN7771313

The Human Environment- New Challenge for the United Nations

01/01/1970 00:10:45

Unique ID UN7611708

The Human Environment - New Challenge for the United Nations

01/01/1970 13:12:57

Unique ID UN7771314

The Human Environment- New Challenge for the United Nations

01/01/1970 13:18:58

Unique ID UN7771315

The Human Environment - New Challenge for the United Nations

01/01/1970 10:05:28

Unique ID UN7538730

Marine Pollution in Cuba

01/01/1985 11:16:09

Unique ID UN7767703

Press Conference by the Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Human Environment

06/04/1972 14:56:10

Unique ID UN7770330

Industrialization for Development: Factory in USA

01/01/1984 12:30:00

Unique ID UN7771334

Drought in Africa

01/01/1984 10:27:41

Unique ID UN7725716

Drought in Africa

01/01/1984 10:27:41

Unique ID UN7725721

Drought in Africa

01/01/1984 10:27:41

Unique ID UN7725709

Similar tones

View images with similar tones

Headline Pollution - Jamaica

Caption Description Bauxite residue from nearby industry polluting a pond.

Unique Identifier UN7771319

NICA ID 71008

Production Date 01/01/1972 1:11:19 PM

Country Jamaica

Credit UN Photo/AF

File size 1.40 MB