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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.

Unique ID UN7ALB50459

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Headline Local Man Keeps Bhutan's River Immaculate

Caption Description A man removes a plastic bottle from a river in Punakha, Bhutan, clearing litter deposited during a festival from days earlier. Pictured in the background is Punakha Dzong which houses Buddhist temples and the administrative offices of Punakha district.

Unique Identifier UN7417279

NICA ID 451480

Production Date 09/28/2009 10:46:39 PM

Country Bhutan

Credit UN Photo/Gill Fickling

File size 3.39 MB