Green Options » environmental degradation http://greenoptions.com/tag/environmental-degradation Posts tagged 'environmental degradation' Sun, 10 May 2009 22:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Haiti’s Poverty is Directly Linked to Deforestation and Habitat Loss http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/10/haitis-poverty-is-directly-linked-to-deforestation-and-habitat-loss/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/10/haitis-poverty-is-directly-linked-to-deforestation-and-habitat-loss/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 22:50:37 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/10/haitis-poverty-is-directly-linked-to-deforestation-and-habitat-loss/ Haiti continues to claim the dubious honour of being ranked as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 80% of this Caribbean nation’s population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Haiti’s sorrowful rank as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world has been directly attributed to the degradation of Haiti’s natural environment (less than 1.5% of its original tree cover remains intact) as well as a lack of governance structures, underinvestment in social capital, obstacles to private investment, and a spiraling “poverty trap“.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/10/haitis-poverty-is-directly-linked-to-deforestation-and-habitat-loss/feed/ The Animals are Innocent, Blame the Local Ecology http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/06/the-animals-are-innocent-blame-the-local-ecology/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/06/the-animals-are-innocent-blame-the-local-ecology/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:31:53 +0000 Sam Aola Ooko http://ecoworldly.com/2008/03/06/the-animals-are-innocent-blame-the-local-ecology/ camp-for-internally-displaced-people-in-darfur-sudan.JPG

There is no recent conflict in Africa that has elicited so much debate around the world and in the United States, in particular, as Darfur. Not even the post election political skirmishes in Kenya drew so much attention. Kenya, once the darling of the continent, the erstwhile adversaries are today sharing a cup of tea as well as power, something unthinkable only two months ago.

In a 2007 newspaper article, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said: “Almost invariably, we discuss Darfur in a convenient military and political shorthand - an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers. Look to its roots, though, and you discover a more complex dynamic. Amid the diverse social and political causes, the Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change.”

What does this mean? The Darfur conflict inflicts even more damage on Sudan’s environmental degradation with nearly two million internally displaced people putting pressure on the fragile environment as they clear land and source ground water to survive.

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