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April 14th, 2011
Haiti – Environment : 20 M Protect Biodiversity and Watersheds

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Two new environmental projects to preserve biodiversity and provide a solution to bi-national management of the Artibonite basin, for $20 million over 4 years, have just been launched. “Today in Haiti, population explosion and increased human pressure on the country’s natural resources is degrading the environment,” said Jean-Marie Claude Germain, Minister of the Environment. “To cope with this growing problem, we are trying to establish an effective system for the management of protected areas that represents the best hope to conserve ecosystems, habitats and species as well as help reduce the rate of biodiversity loss “. This first project is a response to the problems of natural resource management which has so far proved ineffective because of several constraints: lack of territorial and local governance arrangements, lack of qualified human resources to ensure implementation and management of SNAP and the lack of systematic environmental information and monitoring indicators for land management. Read More

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