{"id":19301,"date":"2008-05-09T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/us10-million-for-protected-areas\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T01:43:56","slug":"us10-million-for-protected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/05\/09\/us10-million-for-protected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"US$10 million for protected areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Environment has signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the German Construction Bank (KFW) to create a US$10 million fund, which will be administered by the National Protected Areas System (SINAP). The organizations will provide US$6.5 million for the fund, while the Dominican government will provide the remaining US$3.5 million. Environment Minister Omar Ramirez said that this represents an improvement in the sustainability of the nation&#8217;s ecosystem and development. TNC representative William Welter said that the agreement shows the reach of inter-organizational and international cooperation. The SINAP includes 86 sites and covers 11,500 kilometers, or 24% of Dominican territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Environment has signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the German Construction Bank (KFW) to create a US$10 million fund, which will be administered by the National Protected Areas System (SINAP). The organizations will provide US$6.5 million for the fund, while the Dominican government &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/05\/09\/us10-million-for-protected-areas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}