Has Haiti Lost Nearly All of Its Forest? It’s Complicated
The cloud forests of Haiti ’s Macaya National Park arebelieved to carrythe globe ’s bombastic concentration of endemic amphibian . Island ecosystem are hotspots for biodiversity , and historically , Haiti was no unlike . But a terrible new study write Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesclaimsthe Caribbean country has less than 1 percentage of its original primary forest left . By around 2035 , all that forest is forecast to be survive , leaving Haiti ’s wildlife — from endemic orchids to the Mozart ’s toad — with no safe seat to go ....