Haiti Ethnographic Research

In this article the author claims that the fact that the European and the USA refused to recognized Haitian governments after the declaration of its independence, strengthened the political regime of President Jean-Pierre Boyer, which provoked the rise of a whole nation. During the Haitian Revolution, Haiti became a place of destination for many West Indian slaves that were trying to escape. By guaranteeing to these fugitive a certain protection President Boyer was indirectly punishing the British for not formally recognizing the Republic’s

Imagine yourself as a businessperson on a trip to the island of Hispaniola to check on how production is faring. You land in Santo Domingo to transfer to a short commuter flight to Port-au-Prince. During the flight, you gaze outside your window to admire the breathtaking view of the Sierra de Baoruco, with its luscious forests. As the plane approaches the Haiti-Dominican Republic border, you notice that the land has been completely denuded of trees directly on the other side of the border, creating a clear demarcation between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Pinus taeda was only a minor component (2.2 million hectares) of hardwood dominated Piedmont forest before European settlement in the U.S. (before the 1800’s). These forests were converted into agricultural lands (especially cotton farming) after European settlement. However, the introduction of the boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman) impacted growing cotton industry and piedmont and coastal plains in the south remained unused. Abandoned land with eroded soil created a favorable condition for the spread of the light-seeded P. taeda trees resulting in the widespread growth of pure P. taeda stand (Schultz, 1997). Fire control programs conducted in the early 1900s further favored those stands. Furthermore, P. taeda stands expanded

The culture of Haiti is a various mix of African and European elements due to the French colonization of Saint Dominguez. I chose to research this culture for two reason one reason being that I have a friend who is Haitian and I never understood why she did what she did, or even her mother. The second reason is because many people in Haiti is associated with voodoo, and that’s something I personally wouldn’t get to involved with due to my religious views. Throughout this essay we will see in detail the differences in culture from ours to theirs. We will learn about their primary language, religion, their different values and beliefs and last but not least their social practices. While reading on Haiti I started to appreciate their culture more due to the fact that know.

The Daintree Rainforest shows how this Wet Tropics location was once isolated as well as linked with other rainforests. The national park contains tall and open sclerophyll and mangrove forests on the western margins where it is dry. Eucalypts as well as sclerophyll have progressed from “rainforest stock and radiated into drier environments from the margins of closed forests.”

Palm trees can be isolated into few noteworthy sorts relying upon their trunk, leaf structure, development rate, size, and chilly resilience.

The African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata) is a native species of tree that is found along the West coast of Africa from Ghana to Angola and inland across the center of the continent to southern Sudan and Uganda. (Source #1) The vivid fiery hue of the flowers of the African tulip tree contributed to its introduction to Puerto Rico more than a century earlier as an ornamental. (Source #2) More than a century later the African tulip tree has contributed to the reforestation of lands formerly abandoned by agricultural collapse. It is now the most abundant tree in the secondary forests of Puerto Rico. (Source #3) The opportunistic nature of the resilient African tulip tree has transformed the landscape of Puerto Rico by providing habitat and aiding in the recovery of flora and fauna due to anthropogenic ecocide.

Only a century ago, South America's primitive forests blanketed the entire region from the southern tip of the continent north half the length of Chile's coast and eastward into Argentina's Patagonia. Beech trees of the genus Nothofagus covered most of the region, mixed with evergreen and various deciduous trees. Once extending more than 35 million acres, these forests comprised the largest stands of pristine temperate rainforest in the world (Nash 1994). Nothofagus beeches are among the most ancient species of trees and have been on Earth more than 150 million years. Soon after their arrival in the 16th century, European settlers began logging these forests, but not until the 20th century did widespread clearance begin. During the 1940s

Over one thousand miles of roads and two hundred bridges were built. The occupiers reconstructed the French irrigation system that Haiti had, new wharves and acetylene lighthouses were built. Theaters and parks were restored or built from the ground up. The public health systems were enlarged; hospitals and clinics were set up across the country. Even American doctors came to train Haitian doctors, and some Haitian doctors went to the U.S. to study (Thomas Smith: 291, video). These are the only things that Haiti benefited from this intervention.

In addition to crops, the little vegetation found in El Salto is composed of eucalyptus, pine, guamuchil, and fruit like mangos, guava, and plum (Salas Mercado, 2010). El Salto, also has plants such as roses and mauves. Most of the flora, continues to freely grown in the region; however, in a short interview with the author Conant (2009), a woman named Inez Garcia, explains that the region has always experienced poverty since crops do not sell at high prices, but in the region there was once an abundance of mango trees. Now, Garcia said mango trees are scarce in the region since all farming has been moved or because people are not willing to grow them and expose themselves to the contamination (Conant, 2009).

Since 2003, Bayard and his team has been working alongside with local citizens on ways to reduced and protected areas. They are focused on making sure on economic values, educated the children, and elders on strategies that can be valuable for better food sources. Bayard’s main focus is to protected the environment, and any number of species or types that Haiti has left over. Société Audubon Haiti foundation helps the society to improve natural resources management. Haiti is suffering from degradation, the forests that once covered the whole country have now been reduced. Due the

Many researchers have a general idea of what caused the collapse of Easter Island, a 63-mile Polynesian island, also called Rapa Nui, located in the Pacific nearly four thousand miles west from the country of Chile (Krulwich 2013). Most of whom who investigate the specific aspects that brought Easter Island to its ultimate downfall, which includes extreme deforestation, pests, soil erosion, and a more or less lack of resources, are able to connect this fatal downward spiral to the rest of the world today (Hillel 1992, 3-11). With the dangerous situation the island of Haiti serves to be presently mending due to their deforestation for charcoal and soil erosion as a consequence, this problem has become a major economic issue for the island’s inhabitants; how do we know that this catastrophe will not occur in other areas of the world, and what types of measures can be taken to eliminate the cycle of deforestation due to the absence of thought for what could happen when the final tree serves as a martyr for an ecosystem that once had the great potential to thrive?

Covering over 2 million km2, the Amazon Rainforest is home to the world’s largest rainforest and contains almost 50% of the world’s biodiversity and one-fifth of all freshwater. As the years have gone by, there has been growing evidence that has overturned historic understanding of what Amazonia was like prior to the colonial period, showing that the region was once home to far larger and more densely indigenous populations than originally thought. The governments and people of South America must implement environmental and indigenous standards for the species and humans of the Amazon or otherwise the struggles for biodiversity and cultural survival in the Amazonian region will continue to worsen.

All the plants used in this study were collected from their natural habitat, i.e. from the Sefrou region, named Taounate. The plants were identified and authenticated as Cistus ladaniferus L. and Silybum marianum L. by Professor Amina Bari, Faculty of Science, Fès, Morocco.

This search was undertaken to find published scientific literature on both the ecology and lifecycle of Chilean Needle Grass, the main results of this search are discussed in this literature review for PLSC 321.