On 2 recent visits through the mountaintop village of Seguin, I passed through a patch of Haiti's dwindling pine forest. According to a long time resident of Seguin this area is one of the country's 3 main watersheds, the othertwo being Marmelade and Macaya in the North and the South respectively. Read more »

Anyone who has been to Haiti knows that its environment has been devastated. In fact, one of the first things a visitor notices when flying into Haiti are sandy, rocky mountains that used to be covered with trees. The erosion not only makes the soil less productive, but it also makes villages more susceptible to flooding, mudslides, and other natural disasters. Read more »