Members of the National Environmental Protection Service (SENPA) and the Dominican Army are preparing a plan in action aimed at stopping the illegal traffic of charcoal across the border with Haiti.
According to Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez this is of great concern to the Ministry of Environment. Charcoal production is a major factor in the rapid deforestation of the area. He said it was not enough to confiscate the charcoal and arrest those involved, but that the people running the major business of charcoal manufacture and supply in the area must also be arrested.
Rojas said that so far this year, the Ministry of Environment had destroyed more than 100 charcoal manufacturing ovens, especially in the wooded areas in the provinces of Barahona, Bahoruco and Independencia.
Medio Ambiente dice someterá a la justicia traficantes de carbón del Sur