Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez says that the government will pay RD$11 million to families that were moved out of the Los Haitises National Park in 1992. However, Fernandez reiterated that Los Haitises is an issue of national security and will not allow people to go back and settle there. Fernandez says the park is an area of biodiversity that must be protected and that burning in the park would not be allowed to happen again. He explained that every time the biodiversity is affected it takes 50 to 100 years to recover.

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