NewsWhore
01-10-2012, 03:40 PM
Last year the Ministry of Environment launched Operation Frontera Verde 2012, aimed at discouraging charcoal production in the border region with Haiti. On Monday, El Nacional reported the murder of a forest ranger, 43-year old Eligio Eloy Vargas Medrano (Melanio), a resident of Puerto Escondido, Duverge, of serious injuries in several parts of his body. Several Haitians are accused of killing the forest ranger. Mayor Jose Alfonso Perez accused Pablo Tipal, saying that he committed the murder after being discovered with a charcoal burner.
As reported in El Nacional, the killers escaped with the ranger's rifle, which belongs to the Ministry of Environment. Haitians Rafael Batista and Polonio Moreno, who lived in Puerto Escondido, are under arrest.
A week ago the Armed Forces, the Specialized Security Corps (Cesfront) and the Service for National Environmental Protection (Senpa) announced the launch of Operation Green Border 2012 and confiscated 1,021 sacks of charcoal, destroyed dozens of ovens and confiscated wood that was intended for use in charcoal production. The operations took place north of Enriquillo Lake, in the municipal district of Boca de Cachon and in Bartolome in the Province of Independencia.
Yesterday, others were carried out in El Salado, El Tamarindo and La Clavellina in Bahoruco. Senpa director Colonel Ruben Tiburcio Veloz said that the operation would continue to prevent mass deforestation and the destruction of endemic species.
Monday's El Nacional reported that the border with Haiti is under siege by charcoal production on the Dominican side for sale in Haiti. The newspaper says that Dominicans and Haitians are complicit in the business that threatens the biodiversity and forests of the area.
The surveillance project complements the Green Border project funded by the Norwegian development agency in coordinated with the UN Environmental Program and World Food Program. Although for many years the Haiti-Dominican Republic border appeared as a sharp line where forest cover ends abruptly on the Dominican side of the frontier, complicity with Dominicans has enabled Haitian forest depredation practices to move east to the Dominican side.
http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2011/june/haiti-and-dominican-republic-launch-effort-to-create-green-border.en
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As reported in El Nacional, the killers escaped with the ranger's rifle, which belongs to the Ministry of Environment. Haitians Rafael Batista and Polonio Moreno, who lived in Puerto Escondido, are under arrest.
A week ago the Armed Forces, the Specialized Security Corps (Cesfront) and the Service for National Environmental Protection (Senpa) announced the launch of Operation Green Border 2012 and confiscated 1,021 sacks of charcoal, destroyed dozens of ovens and confiscated wood that was intended for use in charcoal production. The operations took place north of Enriquillo Lake, in the municipal district of Boca de Cachon and in Bartolome in the Province of Independencia.
Yesterday, others were carried out in El Salado, El Tamarindo and La Clavellina in Bahoruco. Senpa director Colonel Ruben Tiburcio Veloz said that the operation would continue to prevent mass deforestation and the destruction of endemic species.
Monday's El Nacional reported that the border with Haiti is under siege by charcoal production on the Dominican side for sale in Haiti. The newspaper says that Dominicans and Haitians are complicit in the business that threatens the biodiversity and forests of the area.
The surveillance project complements the Green Border project funded by the Norwegian development agency in coordinated with the UN Environmental Program and World Food Program. Although for many years the Haiti-Dominican Republic border appeared as a sharp line where forest cover ends abruptly on the Dominican side of the frontier, complicity with Dominicans has enabled Haitian forest depredation practices to move east to the Dominican side.
http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2011/june/haiti-and-dominican-republic-launch-effort-to-create-green-border.en
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)