Ecology expert Domingo Abreu Collado alerted the nation, in the Hoy newspaper, that virgin areas of the Parque Nacional Sierra de Neiba, as declared by Presidential Decree 221 of 1995, are being deforested by Haitians and Dominicans who seek to sell wood to Haiti primarily for charcoal. The forest is in an area where important rivers are born, such as the Rio Macasia. The forest has the largest concentration of mahogany known in the D.R. The author criticized the passive attitude of frontier authorities that is placing at risk the deforestation of the D.R., such as has occurred in Haiti. Abreu Collado said that Dominican authorities have not intervened to not perturb the harmonious relations that exist today with neighboring Haiti.
