NewsWhore
06-29-2012, 05:00 PM
According to a professor of the School of Biology at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Geraldino Caminero, the country's rivers are polluted, many have dried out and others have been diminished due to deforestation and the extraction of aggregates.
Speaking at a conference "The Destruction of Natural Resources Threatens Life on Earth", he also said that there was a need to tackle the lack of education and social inequality, which were the most important causes of deforestation.
He said that addressing environmental problems should be the first Millennium Development Goals and not the seventh, because people cannot live without water, agriculture or food, as reported in Hoy.
http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2012/6/27/434469/Biologo-denuncia-rios-del-pais-estan-secos-y-contaminados
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Speaking at a conference "The Destruction of Natural Resources Threatens Life on Earth", he also said that there was a need to tackle the lack of education and social inequality, which were the most important causes of deforestation.
He said that addressing environmental problems should be the first Millennium Development Goals and not the seventh, because people cannot live without water, agriculture or food, as reported in Hoy.
http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2012/6/27/434469/Biologo-denuncia-rios-del-pais-estan-secos-y-contaminados
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)