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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 Technical Assistance to Liberia: Malaria Control

Caption Description The World Health Organization (WHO) has been engaged in assisting Liberia in a malaria control programme since 1953. Today, 8 WHO experts are helping to carry out intensive anti-malaria campaigns having as a target the protection of 250,000 people by this year's end.
This is Kpain's WHO Centre. People mixing dieldrine used in spraying.

Unique Identifier UN7768478

NICA ID 54482

Production Date 01/01/1956 1:47:47 PM

Country Liberia

Credit UN Photo/AS

File size 1.95 MB