The illegal construction of homes is threatening ecological reserves and mangrove forests across Puerto Rico. Environmentalists warn these cases are leaving the U.S. territory even more vulnerable to climate change amid more intense hurricane seasons.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-caribbean-puerto-rico-mangroves-36e4e66f520e241f315fa4a1d8558ac1She had just returned from a government office where she filed a complaint about illegal construction in an ecological reserve. The reserve is dedicated to one of the island’s largest mangrove forests near her neighborhood in southern Puerto Rico.
When a legislator during one public hearing asked the director of the Jobos Bay reserve who exactly had failed in their duties by allowing the illegal construction, she answered, “The entire system.” “The proposed construction,” the court said, would “privatize an asset in the maritime-terrestrial public domain.”The judge also noted that 2% of the property in the case is protected land where no urban development should have been permitted, and 12% is located in a coastal area with a high risk for flooding.
That case is pending in court, with Timothée accusing Puerto Rico’s Permit Management Office of granting nine extensions and three renewals to developers when by law, it can only award three extensions and one renewal per case. “The number keeps going up every day,” he said, adding that planning employees have now identified more than 100 fake permits. At least eight of those were permits to connect utilities to the illegal homes in Jobos Bay. He stressed that his agency never authorized any permits there.These satellite images show the coastline of Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Puerto Rico on Nov. 11, 2017, and on April 2, 2022.
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