32 min
Ep17 Environmental issues El Cuerpo de Cuentos
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- Society & Culture
Within about an hour on the island of Hispaniola, you can drive from a high elevation pine forest, through a semi-desert arid plain, and into an ocean mangrove forest. This range of geodiversity allows for a high rate of biodiversity.
To learn about the ecology and environmental situation, I talked to Tim. Tim’s been on the island and affiliated with the Peace Corps for over 30 years. He first came to the Dominican Republic as an Environment Volunteer and is now the Peace Corps In-country Training Director. In this conversation, we talk about the increasingly delicate ecosystems of Hispaniola and speculate about future environmental threats here. Tim also shares a story about how a grassroots campaign that started with a Peace Corps project helped stop a mining operation that had potential for large scale contamination here in the Dominican Republic.
Within about an hour on the island of Hispaniola, you can drive from a high elevation pine forest, through a semi-desert arid plain, and into an ocean mangrove forest. This range of geodiversity allows for a high rate of biodiversity.
To learn about the ecology and environmental situation, I talked to Tim. Tim’s been on the island and affiliated with the Peace Corps for over 30 years. He first came to the Dominican Republic as an Environment Volunteer and is now the Peace Corps In-country Training Director. In this conversation, we talk about the increasingly delicate ecosystems of Hispaniola and speculate about future environmental threats here. Tim also shares a story about how a grassroots campaign that started with a Peace Corps project helped stop a mining operation that had potential for large scale contamination here in the Dominican Republic.
32 min