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Local July 21, 2016 | 3:40 pm

Environment rebuffs assertion of ravaged forests, says they’ve grown instead

Santo Domingo.- The Environment Ministry on Thursdayrejected the Punta Cana Foundation’s assertion that the forests of the Sierrade Bahoruco National Park are being ravaged to produce charcoal, which is then exported.

It said the south region’s dry forest has grownsignificantly, "to the point that it has gone, up 45.5 percent this year insome provinces since 2003.

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