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Puntacana Hotel invites guests to annual bird count

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Punta Cana.– Guests at both Tortuga Bay and the Puntacana Resort & Club complex are invited to participate in the Dominican Republics’s annual bird count with renowned ornithologist Dr. André Dhondt, from December 28 through January 2.
Groups of 10 will have the opportunity to don binoculars and field guides and head into the resort’s nature preserve [...]

Dominican Republic receives US$10 million for protected areas

Monday, May 12th, 2008

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As Dominican forests are ravaged, endemic species vanish, ecologists warn

Friday, May 9th, 2008

SANTO DOMINGO.- Two prestigious ecologists yesterday warned that Dominican Republic must protect its forests to prevent droughts and the extinction of many endemic species, threatened by the high depredation levels.
Biologist and National District Environmental Information Center director Milcíades Mejía, and Botanical Garden director Ricardo Garcia, in a ceremony to mark Arbor Day, said there’s a [...]