Puig warns of protected area breakup

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Former Minister for the Environment, and, until this week, presidential advisor, Max Puig alerted on the imminent major deforestation of protected areas for profiteering of particular interested parties. Puig said that forests, beaches and rivers are under siege by environmental predators. He told Hoy reporter Odalis Mejia that when he was at the Ministry, he had to fire a lot of people that tried to file improper requests for environmental dispensations and such. Puig said he followed a "zero tolerance" policy regarding the environment. He warned that "there are people that want part of the Dominican Republic for their own use." Although the former minister did not specify names, he was energetic in saying that there were people trying to exploit the nation's watersheds. He praised his team of vice-ministers as "serious and respectful."

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