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Santo Domingo .- The Dominican and Haiti republics will begin in October a plan to reforest the border area and protect the environment and natural resources of the whole island.

The Dominican minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal and Haiti's Jean Marie Claude Germain yesterday signed the joint statement in Villa Anacaona, municipality Restauracion (west), which sets out actions aimed at improving environmental conditions on the island.

The Dominican Ministry of Environment said in a statement that it seeks concrete actions to manage shared water resources, arranging and conducting hydrographic surveys, and inventories of transboundary aquifers. It also provides measures to reduce risks of shortages of these resources, and adaptation to climate change impacts.

The document says the Environment Ministry will reforest through Quisqueya Verde starting early October with 10 binational brigades to reforest the area.

The two ministries will support the Transboundary Environment Program (PMT), in both countries with support from the European Union and encourage greater direct impact of actions to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants on both sides of the border.

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Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 19 Sep 2008 4:14 PM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
jaime david is getting around like a donut
Written by: josean, 19 Sep 2008 4:17 PM
From: United States
Lie-onel's plan to unite the two republics is in full swing, Rubi!
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 19 Sep 2008 4:32 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente
this is possibly the most positive news to come out of the wasp nest that is dominico-haitian relations.
Written by: josean, 19 Sep 2008 4:50 PM
From: United States
PLD Presidential candidates for 2012 Guerrero-Brito or Brito Guerrero fine with me!

http://www3.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=170107
Written by: Belial, 19 Sep 2008 4:56 PM
From: United States, Texas
The new environment minister has some good ideas about common actions that wil improve the situation despite global warming.
Written by: Dominicanaso, 19 Sep 2008 5:01 PM
From: Dominican Republic
It seems to be a good thing. Jaime David knows about natural resources and watersheds management, therefore, he is awared of that project will eventually benefits both countries.

I hope that more than planting trees, they also provide the protection and adecuate management tress need to growth. I would like Jaime brings possitive changes to the Secretaria de Medio Ambiente taking a look to those factories responsible for most of the pollution of our rivers.

But if Leonel plans to unite the two countries step by step let me tell you that he is so wrong, that's not going to happen any more in the DR.
Written by: Jander, 19 Sep 2008 5:06 PM
From: Dominican Republic
The document says the Environment Ministry will reforest through Quisqueya Verde starting early October with 10 binational brigades to reforest the area.

"From the air, Haiti's hills are the back of a starved hound -- sharp, brown and bare with a thousand miseries scratched into its skin.

Without trees to capture the scant rainwater, its rivers run brown. The main dam that supplies electricity chokes on silt.

The devastation of this once lush land is not new. Nor is the brutal math of deforestation: Each year U.S. relief workers plant six million saplings; each year, Haitians desperate for firewood, farmland or timber chop down 30 million trees."

``You're not looking at a tropical country. You're looking at a Nevada desert,'' said Ed Scott, an American contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. ``It's not ignorance. It's not voluntary destruction. People had no choice.''

Written by: Edward, 19 Sep 2008 6:06 PM
From: United States, Faux News: Unfair Imbalance
cumbaya...cumbaya!!!
Written by: JRRubirosa, 19 Sep 2008 10:05 PM
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Josean:

Actually He is trying to teach Haitians how to be civilized and take care of the enviroment, look at the subliminal message not the news.
Written by: greenwave This user is banned, 19 Sep 2008 10:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic
As already pointed out by Jander, it doesn't matter how often they re-plant trees in Haiti, their people will chop it down! Doing the reforestation and water preservation in combo may give the impression of "togetherness or caring about" but DR better be careful who they invite in and who they emulate or they will be stunt by an african bee!
Written by: JRRubirosa, 19 Sep 2008 10:22 PM
From: United States, Port Washington, LI (New York)
Greenwave:

PLD, the president and everybody else in this "P.....E" goverment must step up and behave like the trinitarios with real "steel scrotum" with our neighbors since they never show any civilized manners or behavior.
Written by: gmiller261, 20 Sep 2008 10:04 AM
From: United States

Dominicans and Haitians have to remember... Green side up !
Written by: etiennc, 20 Sep 2008 2:00 PM
From: United States
I know what" exercise in futility "means , but i don't know where and when to apply it.
Written by: christospherein, 20 Sep 2008 4:26 PM
From: United States
Cool. Working together for a better island. Thats nice.
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