Haiti has long born the brunt of natural disasters. Now, climate change and rising sea levels place the country at further risk of flooding. While the region’s mangrove forests are a vital buffer to wind and waves, poverty-stricken residents cut them down to create charcoal for cooking. To conserve both Haiti’s ecosystems and the livelihoods of locals, marine biologist Jean Wiener founded the Foundation for the Protection of Marine Biodiversity. Discover the difference they’ve made in Haiti, and visit foprobim.org to support their work. Footage by FoProBim and Goldman Environmental Prize was used in the creation of this film.
Up Next in Season 2
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Barbara Zimmerman
For over four decades, Kayapó people have been fighting to safeguard their right to the Amazon. “Logging and gold mining not only deprives indigenous people of their way of life, but threatens the entire ecosystem,” Barbara Zimmerman says. The conservationist is the founder of the Kayapo Project,...
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Wes Jolley
Islands are hotbeds of biodiversity. But of all the extinctions that have taken place, 75% occurred on islands. “The greatest cause is human impact, and invasive species are a major piece of this,” says Wesley Jolley, a project manager at Island Conservation. Since 1994, the organisation has coll...
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Erin Smith
There’s no time to waste when it comes to ocean pollution. It’s estimated that 100 000 marine mammals and turtles are killed annually by plastic waste. And the cheap flip-flops we wear to the beach exacerbate this problem. They wash up on the shore, littering the sand with materials that can take...
