Reforestation is the main thing, but with recent changes in the Ministry of the Environment and the Sub-Secretariat of protected areas expect things to be a continuation of today's news - evictions of poor people near Santiago to create a park.
The DR is in many respects miles ahead of the rest of latin america - it has the fourth highest amount of protected areas (as measured as a percentage of surface area) in the world, but it has no environmental culture or ideas of how to integrate environmental protection into the livelihoods of rural people.
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