Listin Diario denounces the continued depredation of the Las Calderas Natural Monument in Peravia province, the most important dunes in the Caribbean. The newspaper reporters denounce there are impacted areas in the inner area of the Dunes and the buffer zones. The dunes are also known as Las Dunas de Baní. Baní is the capital of Peravia province that is about an hour’s drive to the west of the capital city.
Organized groups from Las Calderas, such as Comunidad Defensores de Las Dunas de Las Calderas and the Asociación de Apicultores del Pueblo de Caldera (Apideca) denounce that more than 3,000 square meters of dunes are also being cleared in Rancho Mar, in the area known as La Zona de Negrín, between Los Escobones and very close to the coastal zone.
Listín Diario reporters verified how dozens of trees of the guano barrigón protected species look blackened and others burned by criminal fires set to clean wide areas of the bush, to make plots for farming and other purposes. The newspaper reported on the considerable damage the predators have caused to the valuable ecological system that is unique in the country and in the Caribbean region.
Listin reporters say that a long and well-installed palisade extends for thousands of meters across a wide area of these sandy lands. There are also stakes with red dots on their spikes, indicating that the land is being cleared for the same damaging purposes.
The reporters interviewed one of the beneficiaries of the devastation, who argued he has a permit from the Ministry of Environment.
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Listin Diario
3 April 2023