There is an interesting and provocative recent article on the Huffington Post website by Ethan Budiansky, who works for an NGO called Trees for the Future, which seeks to assist communities and farmers in less developed countries to plant woodlands in order to mitigate environmental damage. The article looks at the issue of deforestation in Haiti, and attempts to link the ongoing cholera outbreak across the country to the rampant deforestation there. That deforestation is an issue in Haiti is beyond doubt - indeed I have blogged on this previously. I am certainly not the first to note that the border between the Dominican Republic (to the east and north in the Google Earth image below) and Haiti (to the south and west - the white line is the approximate location of the border) is visible from the air purely on the basis of the remarkable change in forest density:
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