haiti

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 * Haiti** is located on the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean. The country occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.

Headlines
[|http://deadline.com/2018/01/conan-obrien-haiti-donald-trump-yelp-review] [|the_truth_about_the_clintons_and_haiti] [|Why Haiti's economy needs new parks - Andy Drumm/IADB] - [|@andydrumm] [|How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes] [|beyonce-visits-haiti-facebook-users-skepticism.html] [|tourism-haitis-new-lease-of-life] [|Is it safe to travel to Haiti? - Lonely Planet] [|surfs-up-in-haiti] [|impoverished-haitian-island-that-wants-nothing-to-do-with-tourism-development] https://news.vice.com/story/one-of-the-most-repeated-facts-about-deforestation-in-haiti-is-a-lie

New species of fish discovered on the coral reef at Three Bays National Park. Details in the new IDB report @http://www.iadb.org/Document.cfm?id=40707195 [|@the_IDB]

Petition https://www.change.org/p/dgmde-rehred-haiti-net-haïti-pour-la-préservation-des-requins-baleines

Hurricane Matthew
[|miami herald] [|bbc]

Wikipedia
[|Haiti] [|Haitian_Creole]

rss
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tourism portals
Ministry of Tourism site: [|http://www.haititourisme.gouv.ht] https://twitter.com/TourismHaiti https://www.flickr.com/photos/tourismehaiti_vivezlexperience

government
http://www.haiti.org

Elsewhere on the web
http://wyclefjean.wordpress.com http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/2009-finalists-project08.php [|Kiskeya Alternative Destinations] http://portacademie.com Fo​ndatio​n pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine​

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Parks
The Ecological Baseline Study and Species Inventory for the Three Bays National Park is now available online in French: @http://www.iadb.org/Document.cfm?id=40707573 and English: @http://www.iadb.org/Document.cfm?id=40707195

Three Bays National Park (Parc Nacional DesTrois Baies et Lagon Aux Bouefs)

A new 72,000 hectare marine protected area has recently been declared on the North coast of Haiti - **Parc National des Trois Baies** including the Lagon aux Bouefs IBA. The IDB is working closely with Haiti's protected areas agency (ANAP) and others to establish the park and generate alternative livelihoods for local people. http://www.cepf.net/news/top_stories/Pages/New-marine-protected-area-created-in-northeastern-Haiti.aspx http://www.ht.undp.org/content/haiti/fr/home/operations/projects/environment_and_energy/etablissement-d_un-systeme-national-daires-protegees-financierem.html http://www.foprobim.org/uploads/3/1/6/6/3166555/decree_creation_of_pa_in_northeast.pdf [] Important Bird Areas [] http://vimeo.com/99040542 http://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/articleprint/138890

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National Protected Areas Authority (ANAP) Agence nationale des aires protégées

The **DC Environmental Film Festival (March 18th-30th )** features a new documentary on Haiti's biodiversity: http://www.extinctioninprogress.net/extinctioninprogress/Home.html
 * Biodiversity**

Recommended Listening
[|Lakou Mizik: Haiti's expression of hope] - Follow the journey of Lakou Mizik, an eclectic group of Haitian musicians on a mission to show the world there is more to Haiti than poverty, pain and political upheaval.

2010 Earthquake
[] [|International Aid Resources - Transitions Abroad] [|In Haiti, good intentions have unexpected and unfortunate results] [|Rebuilding in Haiti Lags After Billions in Post-Quake Aid - New York Times]

flickrgroups
[|Haiti] [|Haiti Photographers Guilde]