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A once-lush country on the verge of total deforestation

The mountains of Haiti could be stripped of trees completely in under two decades.
Deforested hills in the Massif De La Hotte, Haiti

Deforestation has laid waste to the Chaîne des Matheux mountain range (above) and dozens more peaks in Haiti. Credit: Eladio Fernandez

Haiti’s forests have been nearly obliterated, making the island nation one of the world’s most deforested countries — and hurling it into the throes of a mass extinction.

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Nature 563, 159 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07230-2

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