{"id":244976,"date":"2025-12-04T07:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=244976"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:13:54","slug":"forestry-coverage-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/forestry-coverage-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Forestry coverage increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cobertura-Boscosa-Ministerio-Medio-Ambiente-1024x740.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245021\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cobertura-Boscosa-Ministerio-Medio-Ambiente-1024x740.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cobertura-Boscosa-Ministerio-Medio-Ambiente-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cobertura-Boscosa-Ministerio-Medio-Ambiente-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cobertura-Boscosa-Ministerio-Medio-Ambiente-1536x1110.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Cobertura-Boscosa-Ministerio-Medio-Ambiente.png 1794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Environment says that the forestry coverage of the Dominican Republic is 43%, according to an editorial in El Dia. This is up from 10% in 1970. The editorialist says this is a turnaround from the days when cattle ranching, tree-felling businesses and harmful small farming practices had become the norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice Minister Jesus Elis Gonzalez shared the vision and actions underway to find a balance between cutting and planting trees and work for the early control of forest fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry is aware of positive farming actions such as coffee, cacao farming. In recent years, the planting of macadamia trees has also been a positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editorial also mentions that the Ministry of Environment see as positive the installment of bioenergy farms and concludes that forestry and human activity can coexist in a balanced way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/la-cobertura-boscosa\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 December 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Environment says that the forestry coverage of the Dominican Republic is 43%, according to an editorial in El Dia. This is up from 10% in 1970. The editorialist says this is a turnaround from the days when cattle ranching, tree-felling businesses and harmful small farming practices had become the norm. Vice Minister &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/12\/04\/forestry-coverage-increases\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244976"}],"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=244976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245022,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244976\/revisions\/245022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}