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- Dominican Republic plans to reforest border with Haiti
Dominican Republic plans to reforest border with Haiti
Miranda Navarro
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The Dominican Republic plans to reforest its border with Haiti. As a first step it will plant 5 million seedlings.
Official sources told Listín Diario that the work is expected to cost 35 million pesos (approximately US$980,000). On 15 June, the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry signed an agreement with the Border Development Agency to go ahead with the project.
The ministry undertook to provide funding throughout the two-year life of the agreement. The project is a key government policy, and the money will be used to restore land at risk from natural disasters in the Haitian border area.
According to Listín Diario, Environment Minister Jaime Fernandez Mirabal said that the new trees would help to halt deforestation in the south of the country. Telling EFE that it was "a national security issue, because forests and trans-border waters" were at stake, Fernandez warned that the production of charcoal in the border area "is a threat to all of us" because deforestation leads to soil erosion and hence to landslides in the hurricane season.
In the first stage, seedlings will be planted in nurseries. They will consist of pine (3.2 million); mahogany (500,000); mango (200,000); oak, San Domingo boxwood and black olive (250,000 each); and tamarind and guayacan (150,000 each).
The project will be implemented through Quisqueya Verde, a plan under which teams of Haitians and Dominicans are employed in several villages along the border. On the Haitian side, reforestation is also being undertaken by NGOs and church organisations. Fernandez told EFE that "when families join reforestation teams, where they earn 300 pesos (US$8.30) a day, you create green jobs and reduce the pressure on resources".
According to Listín Diario, though, he also warned that "in the town of Restauracion, the forest is under threat from Haitian families who grow crops in the river beds and produce charcoal, for which they have cut down a lot of trees".
Source: http://infosurhoy.com
