Reported cutting of trees on Loma Miranda SANTO DOMINGO. The Committee of Communities United in Defense of Loma Miranda complained yesterday that the Ministry of the Environment granted a permit to cut 3,600 trees at the start of a "Management Plan" of a businessman who owns lands in the enclave. Escarlin Gutierrez, the spokesman of the committee, said that the permit was given to Frank Valdez, a large landowner who has been buying lands in the area where the water are born for a large part of the Northeast. "We met with the director of the Environment for the region, Franklin Bautista, who we delivered a letter to expressing our disagreement with this permit, because this measure would affect even more the area where they have issued the permit to cut. The Ministry should understand that these areas of watersheds should be respected, and not ruing the recovery efforts that have been going on under the stimulus and with the collaboration of the Ministry itself," he said. Gutierrez added that supposedly they held a public hearing, "but what is strange is that the community was not invited, nor did anyone find out about this supposed public hearing that seems to have been a fake one as they tend to be in these cases." The Committee of United Communities in Defense of Loma Miranda declared an alert in order to avoid that the hill be stripped of its trees, and demanded that Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez suspend the permit for the supposed "Management Plan." They also called for the start of the process to declare the Loma Miranda National Park, as the Dominican people are demanding.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:17:39 +0000
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