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Santo Domingo. – The Environment Ministry’s Plan Quisqueya Verde will plant 500,000 trees starting Thursday, October 1, to mark Reforestation Month; an activity headed by vice president Rafael Alburquerque in the town Yaguate, San Cristóbal (south).
Quisqueya Verde director Jose Enríquez Báez said 12,000 government and private workers across the country will take part in the reforestation effort, as well as its permanent brigades. He said the goal is to plant 20 million trees this year, with 12 million already panted, “amount which doubles the average in previous years.”
He called on the population to take part in the project by contacting the Quisqueya Verde offices.
Báez said the reforestation project will begin simultaneously in Loma Juan Bosch, Cotuí, Villa Altagracia, Los Arroyos, Gonzalo, Bayaguana, and Loma Managua, to benefit the basins of the Nizao, Ozama, Jima, Comate, Nigua, Camú, Maimón, Haina, Yuna, North Yaque and Jura rivers.
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1- they produce oxygen, we could not exist, if there were no trees
2-Trees can either storm harmful polluntant or actually change the pollutant into less harmful form, in order words, they clean soil
3-trees plant at strategic point in the neighborhood or around your house, can abate major noises from freeways and airports
4-they slow the water run off
5-it is a carbon storage area or sink than can lock up as much carbon as it produces
6-they cleanse the air by intercepting the airborne particles
7-shade resulting in cooling is what a tree is best known for
8-They act as wind breaks
9-they fight soil erosion and increase property values
but they say ignorance is a bliss