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Experts talk about Haiti\u2019s environmental challenges in the opening night of DREFF at San Juan de la Maguana<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> O<\/SPAN>n September 11th 2014 the IV Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) was inaugurated in San Juan de la Maguana. The opening was a huge success with the Centro Cultural Monina C\u00e1mpora completely packed. More than 200 people attended the event and enjoyed the screening of \u201cExtinction in Progress\u201d followed by an interesting and active panel discussion on Haitian main environmental challenges.<\/P> Panelists included Jurgen Hoppe, Director of the documentary, Anderson Jean and Maxon Fildor representing Haitian scientists working towards their country\u2019s biodiversity conservancy, and Carlos Mart\u00ednez from the Philadelphia Zoo, who participated in the project captured by the film. \u201cPeople are responsible for the world\u2019s loss of biodiversity. We can all collaborate with simple actions in our daily lives to preserve our natural resources\u201d commented Carlos Mart\u00ednez\u201cWe need immediate action to stop Haiti\u2019s biodiversity loss. It is a priority\u201d were a few of the comments made by Jurgen Hoppe, Director of \u201cExtinction in Progress\u201d.<\/P> Anderson Jean, biologist and representative of Societ\u00e9 Audubon du Hait\u00ed answered a question of the audience with the following expression: \u201cHaitian government is making some efforts to stop the more than 100 years deforestation in my country, but the solution is very slow. It is a very complex political, economical and social problem\u201d. <\/P> For more information on \u201cExtinction in Progress\u201d visit: http:\/\/www.muestracinemedioambientaldominicana.org\/extincion-en-progreso\/?lang=en<\/A><\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experts talk about Haiti\u2019s environmental challenges in the opening night of DREFF at San Juan de la MaguanaSanto Domingo, September 13, 2014 On September 11th 2014 the IV Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) was inaugurated in San Juan de la Maguana. The opening was a huge success with the Centro Cultural Monina C\u00e1mpora completely … Continue reading “Experts talk about Haiti\u2019s environmental challenges in the opening night of DREFF at San Juan de la Maguana”<\/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-7078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078"}],"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=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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