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Santo Domingo.- Charcoal production and sale in the border region will be tackled by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources together with the Specialized Border Security Corps (CESFRONT) and intelligence agencies, according to minister Ernesto Reyna Alcántara. He was speaking after a meeting with the directors of Cesfront and specialized security agencies, with whom he analyzed joint plans to be developed and actions for combating the illegal practice.

The concrete measures to be implemented include the assignment of an airplane by the Armed Forces Ministry to patrol the border region to detect charcoal production points with military personnel and Environment Ministry specialists on board.

Coordinates will be established from the air using GPS equipment belonging to the Environment Ministry and automatically reported to the corresponding Provincial Directorate so that they may act on the reported information.

Cesfront director General Santo Guerrero Clase, G-2 Intelligence director General Henry Gómez Bueno, J-2 Intelligence director General Luis Payán Arache, Third Brigade chief General Gilberto Rosario Polanco, Fourth Brigade chief General Abraham Luna Rodríguez, and Fifth Brigade chief General José Rafael López Santana attended the meeting, along with Colonel Tiburcio, director of the National Environmental Protection Service, and Deputy Ministers Valerio García, Manuel Serrano and Víctor García.

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15 comment(s)
Written by: riosm, 28 Dec 2011 7:28 AM
From: United States
It's about time.....too little too late ?
Written by: FedericoD, 28 Dec 2011 7:44 AM
From: Canada
Shut these tree burners down! And then set up a social system that provides all the basic needs required to prove that human beings are the most valuable of all 'things' ... A powerful state is only thus when measured by it's treatment of the weakest members of it's society ...

Written by: dominicanbob, 28 Dec 2011 8:29 AM
From: Canada
Well Frederico, where is the money to come from to provide ALL the basic needs required by human beings, especially when the majority doing the charcoal production are illegal aliens. We differ on the role of government.
Written by: DONT_BE_SILENT, 28 Dec 2011 8:58 AM
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
Where is Josean when you need him?
The charcoal tribe is going to desolate the Island.
Written by: WalterPolo, 28 Dec 2011 9:52 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Again, this could remain a mere announcement.

Many a corrupt brass member make a living off of those tree-burning mudmen.

It's not going to be easy to eradicate.
Written by: FedericoD, 28 Dec 2011 10:21 AM
From: Canada
dominicanbob ... I believe the role of government is to encourage small business ownership ...
Written by: DomRat, 28 Dec 2011 11:46 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Infared monitering from satalites should be 100% slam dunk. The enviroment police want to cruise around the cities messing with people cutting down a shade tree in the back yard to make more rooms for their endlessly expanding families, bad but the cutting down of forests on the border is much worse though not so much to win from.
Written by: hernandez5482, 28 Dec 2011 12:57 PM
From: United States
It is sad, one of the most attractive features of DR is the vegetation, I spend entire days up in the mountains with my brother… shameful that our government is allowing the destruction of our forests.. In the past it was made a difficult process for a Dominican to cut down trees, I am talking when Balaguer was in power. There was a procedure in place and those that did not follow protocol often faced charges. We need something like that and soon.
Written by: DomRat, 28 Dec 2011 1:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic
A permit system is still in place; to cut any type of tree you are supposed to go through the formality of getting a permit from forrestation and you need to show the land is yours and what you intend to do with the tree(s), if it is to be milled where, if you are intending to use the lumber or sell it. Pretty complete - but hard to keep track of - chopping up the fire wood sound just like chopping down a tree, transport is the key choke point.
Written by: BASTA, 28 Dec 2011 2:31 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
It is sad, one of the most attractive features of DR is the vegetation,= What no trash?

Go to SPM and get all thye carbon you want and it does not come from the border
Written by: RoyStone, 28 Dec 2011 4:21 PM
From: Australia
riosm, it probably is too little, too late,
but at least it may give re-vegetation a chance.
I only hope they plant a diversity of indigenous plants and trees, and not a homogenous "crop-plantation" like Pinus radiata or Eucalyptus that has almost no environmental benefit other than absorbing CO2 and preventing further soil erosion.
Written by: CarlosFranco, 29 Dec 2011 1:06 AM
From: United States, Brooklyn

Josean stop cutting our trees!
Written by: Grosero, 29 Dec 2011 6:28 AM
From: United States
CarlosFranco writes: stop cutting our trees


or will cook you in one of the ovens
Written by: RoyStone, 29 Dec 2011 7:15 AM
From: Australia
CarlosFranco, which Josean are you talking about?
Written by: HONEST, 31 Dec 2011 7:43 PM
From: Netherlands Antilles
thisd amazing charcol gangs are as popular, as drug dealers or the mob, I think the Untouchables should come in
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