{"id":2754,"date":"2009-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2009-02-13T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T03:04:49","slug":"noti1389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti1389\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 30 Organizations Sign the Barahona Declaration on the Biosphere Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"



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M<\/SPAN>ore than 30 social organizations and the Catholic Church\u2019s Environmental Concerns Ministry held a workshop in Barahona on the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve. At the workshop they called for more Central Government investment for sustainable development of the border areas, more support for reforestation and the right to a healthy environment. <\/P>
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They solicited the National Congress, town halls and corresponding institutions of the State for more action to encourage eco-tourism,<\/P>
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In the document, \u201cBarahona Declaration,\u201d signatories reiterated their commitment to unify their efforts to preserve and conserve natural resources in the southern region and to highlight the criminal character of the recent fires provoked by careless human activity or arson. <\/P>
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They solicited the National Congress, town halls and corresponding institutions of the State for more action to encourage eco-tourism, the adequate management of waste products and maintenance and construction of infrastructure. <\/P>
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Representatives from the church said faith and unified efforts in defense of life quality will contribute to overcome all forms of poverty, violence and social exclusion. They affirmed their commitment to nature in defense of divine creation. <\/P>
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The event was headed by the Bishop of Barahona, Monsignor Rafael Felipe N\u00fa\u00f1ez, and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Jaime David Fern\u00e1ndez Mirabal. Other Parish priests participated including, Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez, for the Environment Concerns Ministry, Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Gonz\u00e1lez, Rector of the Catholic Technology University of Barahona (UCATEBA), as well as Edward Jendy, Hilario Guti\u00e9rrez, Juli\u00e1n \u00c1ngel Sainz, for the de Duverg\u00e9, San Jos\u00e9 and Vicente Noble parishes, respectively. <\/P>
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Also present were Eleuterio Mart\u00ednez, Deputy Minister for Protected Areas, Bol\u00edvar de \u00d3leo; Environment Attorney General of Barahona, Marcos Soto; Luisa Canario Feliz, V\u00edctor Terrero and Ram\u00f3n Colombo. <\/P>
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    1. Catholic Technology University of Barahona (UCATEBA)
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    2. Environment Pastoral
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    3. Social Pastoral
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    4. Duverg\u00e9 Parish
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    5. San Jos\u00e9 Parish
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    6. Cabral Parish
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    7. San Antonio, Tamayo Parish
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    8. San Juan Bautista, Vicente Noble Parish
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    9. Our Lady of Fatima, La Ci\u00e9naga Parish
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    10. San Mart\u00edn de Porres Parish
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    11. Cristo Rey Parish
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    12. San Bartolom\u00e9, Neyba Parish
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    13. Our Lady of Rosario Parish
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    14. El Buen Pastor Parish
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    15. Saint Bartolom\u00e9 Parish
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    16. Saint Vicente Parish
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    17. Clareteanos Missionaries
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    18. Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n Missionaries
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    19. Barahona Tourism Clusters
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    20. Hag\u00fcey-Gab\u00f3n Foundation
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    21. Barahona Provincial Government
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    22. FUNDASUR
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    23. FUNDACIPE
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    24. Environmental Society of Jiman\u00ed
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    25. Barahona Municipal Town Hall
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    26. Barahona Ecological Society
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    27. Southern Youth Foundation
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    28. Radio Enriquillo
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    29. Barahona Provincial Office of SEMARENA
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    30. Independencia Provincial Office
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    31. Bahoruco Provincial Office
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    32. Pedernales Provincial Office
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    33. Coffee Producers
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    34. Panzo River Forum
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    35. Strategic Alliance
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    36. Barahona Eco-Tourism, S.A.
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    37. Ecological Society of Cabral (SOECA) <\/LI><\/OL>
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\n		Date of Publication: February 13, 2009 <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Than 30 Organizations Sign the Barahona Declaration on the Biosphere Reserve More than 30 social organizations and the Catholic Church\u2019s Environmental Concerns Ministry held a workshop in Barahona on the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve. At the workshop they called for more Central Government investment for sustainable development of the border areas, more support for reforestation … Continue reading “More Than 30 Organizations Sign the Barahona Declaration on the Biosphere Reserve”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}