Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Deforestation could wipe out over 50 percent of species in Haiti

According to new research from Temple University scientist Blair Hedges, the Caribbean island nation of Haiti is undergoing a mass extinction event, and the country is close to losing its rich biodiversity. Hedges - who has spent decades in Haiti’s rain forests - says that the results of his latest study are shocking. In a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hedges and his co-authors revealed that Haiti, which was once full of lush trees and teeming...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/deforestation-could-wipe-out-over-50-percent-of-species-in-haiti
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