{"id":57033,"date":"2014-09-12T18:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=57033"},"modified":"2014-09-12T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:05:21","slug":"dr-present-for-the-good-of-samana-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/09\/12\/dr-present-for-the-good-of-samana-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"DR present for the good of Samana whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Ministry of Environment is taking part in discussions at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Portoroz, Slovenia from 11-18 September 2014. The Ministry recently paid the RD$1.8 million in arrears to reinstate its voting privileges. The DR joined the commission in 2009. Greenpeace representatives have accused Greenland and Denmark of killing 10-14 humpback whales, the same species that comes to breed and mate in the Bay of Samana. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We share the efforts that Greenpeace and other national and international organizations have been carrying out, including the Dominican media, to put a stop to the killing of the whales,&#8221; said Minister of Environment Bautista Rojas Gomez in a press release. The IWC is meeting in Slovenia to discuss whale killing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Environment is taking part in discussions at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Portoroz, Slovenia from 11-18 September 2014. The Ministry recently paid the RD$1.8 million in arrears to reinstate its voting privileges. The DR joined the commission in 2009. Greenpeace representatives have accused Greenland and Denmark of killing 10-14 humpback whales, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2014\/09\/12\/dr-present-for-the-good-of-samana-whales\/\" 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":[233,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57033"}],"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=57033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}