A member of the PLD's Political Committee or Felix Bautista without makeup!

Other sad news:

The XV International Book Fair in Santo Domingo is the country's principal cultural event of the year, according to Pedro Antonio Valdez, the director of this year's fair.

"'He asked the authorities to provide a constant vigilance in the zone especially at Cuero de Vaca,
to protect the crocodiles and deal with the lake’s situation that he called “alarming.”

Malditos salvages! Eating my crocodiles....The freaking poachers must be shot on sight!...Conooooo!!!

Fracking Dominicans. Fishing with toxic chemicals. And please tell me who is proud to be Dominican.

I thought the crocodiles were protected by law. I would suspect the tourism value of these reptiles to he higher than the proceeds of fishing by these environmental vandals. They have killed the coral, now they are killing the crocodiles. What next? Well there's not much fauna left to kill, other than each other.

@Basta you and your haitian arse shouldn't even be here and speak for us. I'm heck of a lot proud to be Dominican, and these crooks who don't respect nature shouldn't even exist and I don't consider them part of my heritage at all !! for all I care about them...

This new-speak is really annoying. When I was a kid this reptile native to Lake Enriquillo was called "Cayman"; NOW all of the sudden everyone is calling these animals Crocodiles. Soon no one will know what a Cayman is since they will have been conditioned to call them CROCODILES.

This current globalization Process (the country is facing) invades all aspects of the human existence, even semantics and perceptions.
As recent as the 80's it was called a CAYMAN. This was its name before the Europeans invaded the island and displaced its natives.

This is really a trojan horse not a crocodile!

I thought the crocodiles were protected by law. I would suspect the tourism value of these reptiles to he higher than the proceeds of fishing by these environmental vandals. They have killed the coral, now they are killing the crocodiles. What next? Well there's not much fauna left to kill, other than each other.

Guarocuya,
Why are you posting in New-speak (English) and not Arawak?

People caught using poison should be fed to the crocs.

DR should move these people out of these flood zones and apply "Mano Dura" to all those who continue to practice Croc hunting and illegal fishing.


Cheers from Praha

Guarocuya, according to an old guide at Postrer Rio,on the lake, there were caymans many years ago, but the species thriving now is definitely an American Crocodile.

Roy- Look up George Orwell to find out about "new speak," e.g. war is peace or education is ignorance.

Guarocuya,

The people called them Caymans out of nothing more than ignorance.
The reptile found in Lake Enriquillo is the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) that prefers a Salt Water Habitat.

The Caiman(Not Cayman) is a smaller family of species found in Fresh Water Central and South America

Guarocuya proves the old bromide that a little learning is a dangerous thing. in his case, very little learning.

For as long as I lived here, I quit eating fish. Imagine... What standards for led and mercury, when idiots fish with chemicals.

Thank you EDITOR for the information to clarify the Caiman story from our resident brain fart.
Was there ever any Caimans here in the DR? Could not find any data on this.


Protect your future beloved Dominican Republic - Protect your environment!
We should look "next door" to see the future if we do not protect the land... That side of the island is like a cristal ball, learn from it or it will become you! When you look from space the DR is still green! It is not too late.

This type of story infuriates me even more than Josie's delusions! Is he not going to blame the PLD on this story?

This freaking stooped ppl.

Do they know how important these crocs are to the environment?

See, freaking DONKEY RIDERS mentality.

According to Wikipedia,
Lake Enriquillo has no outlet. The lake's water level varies because of a combination of storm-driven precipitation events and the region's high evaporation rate. Salinity in the lake can vary between 33 ppt to over 100 ppt."
"Reasons for the ((recent)) flooding are being debated on, but must be a combination of several including increase in rainfall in the region in recent years, increase of sediments going into the lake from run-off due to deforestation that are contributing to raising the lakebed, and milder temperatures which are reducing the surface evaporation rate."

This would suggest to me that salinity and flooding have been characteristics of the region, long before human habitation. As Caimen (Caiman crocodilus and Melanosuchus niger) inhabit only fresh water in Central and South America (not the Caribbean) then perhaps the old guide was not correct and AnthonyC was. Regardless calling anyone "brain fart" is against the rules.

"Caiman also Cayman, 1570s, from Portuguese or Spanish caiman, from a Carib word, or perhaps from a Congo African word applied to the reptiles in the new world by African slaves. "The name appears to be one of those like anaconda and bom, boma, which the Portuguese or Spaniards very early caught up in one part of the world, and naturalized in another."

Guarocuya,
Accurate zoological taxonomy and nomenclature is scientific common-sense. It is not a conspiracy of the New World Order, Orwellian new-speak or white-supremacist oppression of indigenous populations.

The issue is the reptiles and fish in the landlocked lake. All the bickering is like trying to determine why the boat is sinking: it's leaking, no the drain plug is missing, no it's the rain - ad infinim. Bail and calk the leak if you can locate it. In this case perhaps an overflow at a level to maintain a maximum lake level drained to what ever is nearest useable drainage - keeping in mind it is saline water.

who don't respect nature shouldn't even exist and i don't consider them part of my heritage at all !! for all i care about them

hey! wait a minute even though u want to distant yourself from them u are they are still part of u and me.

and for the low-lifes that use poison and any other way they can think of to get all the fish in the rivers they are also low-lifes. they are also the ones that sell their own wifes and kids for the tourists and gringos and even local dominicans for a few dollars.

i live in the florida. in the lower keys in the northen part of key largo they have over 2,000 crocs, they are procted by the federal and state governments.
if one is to kill or harm one of them they are going to jail period.

Do they know how important these crocs are to the environment

NO THEY DONT KNOW AND EVEN IF THEY DID THEY DONT GIVE A F**K DO THEY?

DomRat,
The expansion of the lake is not the problem. That is what it does sometimes. The locals killing the crocodiles is.
Over-fishing, poisoning fish, farming on a flood-plain, removing vegetation is. Removing these environmental vandals is the solution. This lake and its flora and fauna is an endangered national treasure. The locals aren't.

@ Danny00 just how important are they? Lots of tropical environments do just fine with out 'crocs'. Fill me in? - that asked - I am in favor of keeping a good supply - bio diversity - but maybe some regulated harvesting as well. They are certainly of great interest to tourists and nauturalists and part of pride in natural diversity. Mountains to salt lakes below sea level. Yada yada - also answers my own dumb idea of 'draining' excess water. Needs to be pumped right!!

DomRat,

While I would normally agree with regulated harvesting or actual farming(Cows, Pigs and Chickens aren't in any danger of extinction are they?) Remember we are talking about the D.R.

Well Regulated does not apply.

@ Danny00 just how important are they? Lots of tropical environments do just fine with out 'crocs'. Fill me in? - that asked - I am in favor of keeping a good supply - bio diversity - but maybe some regulated harvesting as well

GOOD COMMENT.
YES IN FLORIDA WE DO HAVE CONTROLS, BUT THEY ARE OVER SEEN BY FISH AND WILD LIFE EXPERTS, NOT THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Written by: RoyStone, 18 Apr 2012 3:49 AM
From: Australia
Guarocuya,
Why are you posting in New-speak (English) and not Arawak?

Canoa, barbacoa, cuyaya guaragao,
Quisqueya been invaded, when will they figure it out?

Lo dijo Guarocuya, por si las moscas, la tuya!