JULY 2009

Repair Program of the tourist ways

Las GalerasSamaná- Las Galeras road

BREAKING NEWS: The secretary of Tourism, Francisco Javier García, said that this portfolio had terminated 95% of work of the national asphalting plan in the tourist poles.

The civil servant explained that the initiative had been extended to Boca Chica, Guayacanes, Juan Dolio, Bayahibe and to the roads Las Galeras-Samaná and Sánchez-Las Terrenas.

He declared that the repair and work on these public ways were essential for the tourist development of the various destinations that offers the country and reiterated that the Secretariat of Tourism had the asphalt material necessary to finish the paving of all the access ways to the principal tourist poles.

Las Galeras Live, 13.07.09

150 hatchlings of largest sea turtles released

150 hatchlings of largest sea turtles releasedOn the list of endangered species

BREAKING NEWS: The Environment Ministry (SEMARENA) announced the birth of at least 150 leatherback turtles in the last few weeks in nests in La Altagracia and Samaná provinces, which were released in the capital’s Guibia beach.

In Samaná 147 hatchlings were born in two nests, whereas three others were born in the National Aquarium, from eggs recovered to prevent poachers from sacking the nest in the northeast coastal town Nisibón.

The newborns were released at Güibia beach, in the capital, whereas seven nests are still being guarded at Nisibón’s beach.

Personnel of the Coastal and Marine Resources Department and the National Aquarium’s Aquatic Species Rescue and Rehabilitation Center monitor in-situ the leatherback (Coriacea Dermochelys), whose local name is tinglar.

Semarena asked the coastal communities to protect the leatherback, the largest of all sea turtles, also known as laúd, baula or canal, which is on the list of endangered species.

Dominican Today, 27.07.09