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Local August 30, 2016 | 7:52 am

From slum to ecological parklands

Santo Domingo.- The government, through the ImplementingUnit for the Readaptation of La Barquita and Environs (URBE), has startedpreparatory work for planting 27,000 plants in La Vieja Barquita, as part ofthe process of converting the former slum area into an ecological river park.

The 150,000m2 area, which will be reforested with40 endemic tree species, will be administered as... Read more

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