[kl-bogel] Trade charcoal in Haiti
The main type of fuel in Haiti - Charcoal. However, its use leads to deforestation and causes a potential environmental catastrophe. Now exploring other possible ways of obtaining fuel.
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1. Haitian cooking using charcoal in front of their tents near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince last month. Charcoal is the main fuel in Haiti, but in order to ensure the right amount of wood harvested annually about 50 million trees. The country lost 89% of all its trees, which leads to soil erosion, destroys arable land.
2. Manufacturing industry charcoal Kalnes Yove, who lives near Titan, about an hour's drive north-east of Port-au-Prince, chop a tree root from which will be produced charcoal. Cutting down trees - one of the major challenges in Haiti in recent years.
3. Gene Kechner, who lives near Titan, burns wood, turning it into charcoal. The country has problems with electricity, so the charcoal - the only widely available type of fuel.
4. Gene Kechner with a device which he uses for cutting of trees for making charcoal.
5. Sale of charcoal on the market Titan. Haitians call now processed into charcoal used paper, not wood. But for Haiti, a country that still can not recover from the earthquake in 2010, selling charcoal - one of the main sources of income.
6. Workers at the port of La Saline unload coal intended for the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
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8. Man tries to catch the pig, which climbed into the charcoal in the port of La Saline.
9. Haitian children sort the charcoal in the port of La Saline.
10. Merchant charcoal in Peson Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
11. Merchant charcoal exploring their wares.
12. Merchant charcoal Francilien Tessilike rests at the end of the day.
13. Working in the market charcoal boys rest Peson Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
14. People have been leaving the market of charcoal at the end of the day in Port-au-Prince Site Soleil.
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