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10-23-2008, 04:10 PM
Business leader Julio Virgilio Brache says that business people need to join forces in order to save the Dominican forest cover. He said that forests have been deteriorating and the efforts will prevent the country's water supply from drying up altogether. Brache, the president of the National Network of Business Support for the Protection of the Environment (Renaepa), reminded reporters from Hoy that trees covered 88% of the country 100 years ago, but today trees only cover 30% of the area. During his interview, Brache said that, "the country is running the risk of desertification, as has practically happened in Haiti and that we would have to depend exclusively on imports for food, if the deforestation continues". Brache said that one of Renaepa's goals is to restore 50% forest cover. He talked about the effect that climate change is having all over the world, and stated that the country has seen rains that "nobody knows where they come from and that cause major flooding and overflows from dams." He pointed out that it is raining where it never rained before and hurricanes are getting more frequent.
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