WAVE emerged from the Dominican Conservation Association (DCA)- the latter founded in the 1980s- which successfully advocated for the Heritage Park and National Park to be listed as protected Areas. WAVE is a relatively young organization, being registered as a NGO in February 2021 but also operates within the umbrella NGO group, the Progressive Reform Movement. WAVE takes on these previous struggles resisting dredging rivers, copper mining, and deforestation but these problems have magnified. Thus have had a long history of resistance but the problems have recently increased tenfold, impacting areas such as the Rosal River, the”Queen River,” which has greatly reduced water flow ( from a wide river to now just 12 inches of water) because took stones and sand out of the river after Hurricane Maria. WAVE engages in regular tree planting in an attempt to stabilize river banks that have been disturbed due to unchecked dredging and quarrying. The Dominican Forestry Department does not have the capacity to secure watersheds following storms. Highlighted presence of a lot of foreign companies involved in the dredging, causing floods when there are rains, plus quarrying for the extraction of stones.
ACTIVITIES of WAVE
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Showcasing stories of Caribbean organizations at the foreground of the struggle against disaster capitalism in the Caribbean. Our network of participants in the Greater Caribbean region connect, learn, share their hands on responses to the impacts of the twin threats of the climate crisis and disaster capitalism in our region.
Bernard Lodge Farmers Group
WAVE (Progressive Reform Movement)
Tèt Kole
Global Challenges Research Fund
Open Society Foundations
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