Caribbean Biological Corridor

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Three nations, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, underwrote an agreement yesterday to create the first Caribbean biological with the idea of reducing the loss of bio-diversity in the region and protecting the environment. The agreement, which has the blessings of the Latin American office of the United Nations Program for the Environment (PNUMA), was signed by Environment Minister Max Puig of the Dominican Republic, Haiti Environment Minister Jean Claude Germain and Environment Minister Fernando Gonzalez Bermadez from Cuba. At the signing, Max Puig pointed out that the area is one of the most important in the world with regard to bio-diversity. According to the experts a "biological corridor is a defined geographical space that facilitates the relation between human beings and nature and provides connections between ...ecosystems, habitat and culture, contributing to the upkeep of the essential ecological processes...and economic development of the communities served." The 1,600-kilometer-long Caribbean Biological Corridor spans the biosphere reserve of Jaragua-Bahorouco-Enriquillo and the Central Mountain Range in the DR to the Haitian border. In the future, the area around Montecristi and the adjacent costal marine areas might be included.

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