Week 13 Blog

     The coastline of Haiti is eroding severely and more and more seriously, as the seas get higher, the tropical storms get stronger, and the large-scale deforestation of the mangroves, which provide the best protection, is going on. The combination of the rising sea and the storms is causing the beaches to recede more and more, thus damaging the infrastructure and making the coastal communities evacuate further inland. The deforestation of the mangroves for fuel and housing has been one of the main factors that reduced the natural barrier against the sea and that is why places like Les Cayes, Jacmel, and parts of northern Haiti are now very likely being flooded. These ecological factors, along with the heavy population in the coastal regions as well as the absence of good land use control, make it impossible for the people to hold onto their houses, fishing to be the only food and income source, and the growth of the economy to be sustainable in the long run. Haiti is investing in land rejuvenation and coastal restoration projects but the speed of that growing is still much less than the rapidly increasing erosion. 


Sources: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/haiti-an-island-nation-whose-environmental-troubles-only-begin-with-water/

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/mangrove-restorers-in-haiti-bet-on-resilience-amid-rising-violence/

https://www.unep.org/topics/disasters-and-conflicts/country-presence/haiti/ecosystem-based-disaster-risk-reduction

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  1. Ayub BNovember 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM

    Hello. Isaiah it is very interesting that in Haiti that their is eroding and learning about the facts about the eroding. I find it sad that because of these ecological factors that the people can't hold on to their home.

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