Ministry of Environment Calls on Citizens to Join in Reforestation Month

Ministry of Environment Calls on Citizens to Join in Reforestation Month
Dominican Republic,  Santo Domingo, 28/09/2011

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources announced activities for Reforestation Month to begin Saturday, October 1, with a program that seeks to involve more than 500 companies, institutions and organizations of civil society and plant 2 million trees nationally.

The announcement was made during a press conference presided over by the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Ernesto Reyna Alcántara, who reported that 600 working days of reforestation …

The announcement was made during a press conference presided over by the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Ernesto Reyna Alcántara, who reported that 600 working days of reforestation will be conducted in which 15,000 volunteers will participated in brigades organized by the Green Quisqueya Plan through its permanent reforestation program.

In 1997, President Leonel Fernández Reyna decreed October to be Reforestation Month, launching the National Green Quisqueya Plan. Since then, different sectors throughout the country were mobilized to promote the culture of reforestation, an action that has become much more important as Global Warming threatens the human race.

During the press conference  Reyna Alcántara called on the citizenry to join in the different fronts of reforestation that will be organized in all provinces of the country, through which native and endemic species of the Caoba mahogany, Dominican pine, cedar, oak, ceiba, Juan Pimeror, cabrima mahogany, guayacan, candelón, olive, almond and walnut trees will be planted.

Minister Ernesto Reyna Alcántara was accompanied by Deputy Minister of Forest Resources, Manuel Serrano, and the Executive Director of the Green Quisqueya Plan José Enrique Báez.