DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

In Guayubin, a small town in the northwestern province of Montecristi, there is a really special place, Listin Diario reports. It is a private botanical reserve, financed by the Montecristi Solar Park, a solar energy firm that began operations in 2018 generating 58MW of an announced 116MW project. Nestled inside the nearly 100 hectares (4,000 tareas) the company uses to produce energy is a plot of land, 10% of total area, that is now a private botanical reserve.

The botanical reserve project is so important that the National Botanical Gardens in Santo Domingo has been involved since the inception of the solar energy farm.

As the land was being cleared for the installation of solar panels, choice and often very special plants, especially endangered orchids and ground cover were sent to the Botanical Gardens in Santo Domingo and Santiago for safekeeping. Once the construction...