Greenpeace Spain is asking Globalia, the owner of Air Europa, Travelplan, Halcon Viajes and Viajes Ecuador ? all leading travel companies in Spain ? to reconsider the construction of a resort on land within the National Park of the East. President Hipolito Mejia authorized the construction of the property by decree, but environmentalists, tourism industry spokesmen and civil society groups oppose the project due to its violation of Environmental Law 64-00. To legalize his decision to proceed with the development, President Mejia submitted a controversial and much-criticized bill to Congress that would effectively mutilate the DR?s national parks to accommodate other business projects as well as the Globalia proposal. In a letter to Juan Jose Hidalgo, Globalia?s president, Greenpeace director Juan Lopez de Uralde urged that Hidalgo instead support the preservation of the protected areas of the Dominican Republic.
As reported in Diario Libre, last week the Coalition for the Defense of Protected Areas, which assembles all those groups opposing the dismantling of the park areas, gathered in front of the Spanish Embassy in Santo Domingo to protest what they call Spanish government intervention with the protected areas.
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