{"id":69804,"date":"2015-12-01T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=69804"},"modified":"2015-12-01T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:18:59","slug":"environment-protected-areas-are-non-negotiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/12\/01\/environment-protected-areas-are-non-negotiable\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment: Protected areas are non-negotiable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Minister of Environment Bautista Rojas Gomez has confirmed that the country has the government&#8217;s firm assurance that protected areas are non-negotiable. <\/p>\n<p> Speaking at the 21st International Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris yesterday, Monday 30 November 2015, he said that the protected areas, which account for 25% of the Dominican territory, have made a significant contribution to conserve the country&#8217;s culture and national heritage, helping reduce environmental pressure caused by some human activities. <\/p>\n<p> He said that the Dominican government&#8217;s message was clear and this was why they had not approved an application from Cementos Santo Domingo, which is owned by PRM presidential candidate Luis Abinader&#8217;s family, to allow the company to mine limestone deposits in a National Park in the southwestern province of Azua. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"97vaFDXbV7\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/almomento.net\/ministro-de-medio-ambiente-advierte-las-areas-protegidas-son-innegociables\/\">Ministro Medio Ambiente advierte \u00e1reas protegidas son innegociables<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#171;Ministro Medio Ambiente advierte \u00e1reas protegidas son innegociables&#187; &#8212; AlMomento.net\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/almomento.net\/ministro-de-medio-ambiente-advierte-las-areas-protegidas-son-innegociables\/embed\/#?secret=97vaFDXbV7\" data-secret=\"97vaFDXbV7\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Environment Bautista Rojas Gomez has confirmed that the country has the government&#8217;s firm assurance that protected areas are non-negotiable. Speaking at the 21st International Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris yesterday, Monday 30 November 2015, he said that the protected areas, which account for 25% of the Dominican territory, have made a significant contribution &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/12\/01\/environment-protected-areas-are-non-negotiable\/\" 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":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69804"}],"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=69804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}