With frequent flooding, hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands lacking food and basic provisions, Haiti has been hit badly so far this hurricane season, with four severe storms in less than four weeks.
Haiti has suffered in part because of severe deforestation and extreme poverty.
After Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Gustav in August, Haiti was devastated by Tropical Storm Hanna last week, and flooding on Saturday night and Sunday when Hurricane Ike clipped the country's northern peninsula as it raged westward toward Cuba.
Damaged infrastructure and continuing rains left aid organizations struggling to bring emergency assistance to hundreds of thousands of storm victims.
About 600 people died in Haiti's recent storms, according to UN and government figures, and one million were affected.
The storms also battered roads and bridges.
But many say the damage could have been reduced by better environmental planning.
"There's a real emergency.
Measures should be taken to take to slow down the degradation of the environment in Haiti,"
The use of charcoal in most cooking in Haiti -- where some 70 percent live on less than two dollars per day -- has contributed to massive deforestation.
Wood is systematically cut for use as charcoal, in baking and for laundry, contributing to Haiti's environmental destruction.
Haiti's plant cover is estimated at less than two percent and recent heavy downpours led to severe flooding much worse than in the neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
The Government need to make changes now or it will get worst
