Huellas de ejemplo y pasión
The biodiversity of Hispaniola island takes these specialists on a new journey in time. Scientists from Dominican Republic, New Zealand and the UK recently described the extinct giant tortoise of the island and presented new ideas on recent climate change in what we know today as DR and Haiti.
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Thirty visual artworks in multiple disciplines show the collective memory that shapes the brotherhood between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the Caribbean and in New York City in the exhibition “Borinqueya: An Evolving Travesy”.
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Like in a fairy’s tale, the Dominican wasp slept in the specimen archive of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, until it was awakened and described by the Brazilian entomologist Bernardo Santos.
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As I work towards becoming a science journalist in the US, I kept establishing relationships with editors in the science and environment beats in Dominican media outlets. This is when I start working with Diario Libre’s Multimedia Editor Marvin del Cid. And, for the first time, I pithed and published an enterprise story on endemic monkey fossils from the Hispaniola.
The collecting of a primate femur and other fossil remains lead to a new breakthrough in Caribbean paleontology. Specialists discovered fossils of a primate and other species in a southern area of Hispaniola, presented in a preliminary study which suggests a higher level of endemism in the region and extends the territorial distribution patterns of endemic monkeys throughout the island.
About 1 million years ago, endemic monkeys used to live on islands of the Caribbean. What today is one of our getaway destinations -Dominican Republic and Haiti-, is also a project site for scientists who look for fossil remains, some of which lead to new territorial distributions of these species’ habitats and to the understanding of their ruling over the Hispaniola, the reason why they’ve gone extinct.
Burende, La Vega, Dominican Republic
You can hear José as he comes down the alley, with colorful tenths as he walks to his yield. He likes to sing when ever he’s happy. “The one thing a person has to preserve is his word”, says the man to turn 93 on July 16 this year.
Caminando por el Alto Manhattan tras mi llegada reciente a Estados Unidos, me encontré con el sonidista y director de cine Renato Brea.
Nunca pensé yo que quien fue mi profesor de guion y técnica cinematográfica en República Dominicana hace par de años iba a involucrarme en mi siguiente aventura profesional fuera del Caribe.
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Jesenia De Moya Correa 
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