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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 Pilot Plantations for Quick-Growing Industrial Tree Species in Malaysia

Caption Description The tropical rain forests of Malaysia cover over 75% of its land area and produce timbers which rank third in the country’s list of foreign exchange earners. They contain, however, mainly hardwood species (short-fibred), managed on a 70-year rotation, which are not suitable for the new forest industries being proposed as part of the country’s over-all programme to diversify its industrial base. One of the industries considered most desirable is paper and pulp manufacturing. At present, all of the country’s requirements for paper and allied products must be met by imports. As population, literary rates and economic status increase, the need for these materials is expected to go up even more steeply. To meet this demand the Government of Malaysia, with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as Executing Agency, is carrying out experimental planting in various locations as a guide to subsequent development of large plantations. In addition, the facilities at the Forestry Research Institute at Kepong are being strengthened and forestry staff are being trained to handle the new species.
A team from the Forestry Research Institute is seen here checking on the growth of a stand of Pinus Caribaea (British Honduras) in the Institute’s Pilot Plantation near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

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Production Date 12/01/1970 8:43:39 PM

City/Location Kuala Lumpur

Country Malaysia

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