Directory of the Environment and Extermination

Directory of the Environment and Extermination

Creeperian: Directorio del Medio Ambiente y Exterminio
Directory overview
Formed	March 2, 1978 (1978-03-02)
Headquarters	Olino, Rakeo
Parent department	Directory of Agriculture Matters

The Directory of the Environment and Extermination (DMAE) (Creeperian: Directorio del Medio Ambiente y Exterminio) was established as the Directory of the Environment in 1978 in response to the Palco incident to address environmental contamination crises. In 1981, the agency was merged to include extermination/control of harmful and invasive species, as part of a governmental shift to demilitarize elements of its bureaucracy, and was accordingly renamed to its modern name.

History

In the aftermath of the Palco Incident, rare protests emerged across the country, which prompted government fears of political organization. While this was assuaged temporarily by heavy intervention by DAI, a government official suggested that an organization be established to prevent future disasters as well as to assess the state of existing contamination in the country.

In 1981, biologist and Director of the Military Agency for Extermination Elena Carmona Flores took the position of director of the At the time, a policy of demilitarization was put into effect, pushing government services to be run by civilians rather than by military members.

In its 1982 Palco Papers, the Directory published a list of 43 sites which had been contaminated with hazardous materials, the majority of which were in or around the city of Palco. A governmental fund was established to remediate the worst of the sites, specifically targeting heavy metal contaminated earth. While the formal admission that the government had failed in its duties to protect the public was unprecedented, many independent scientists believe that the report was a significant undercount, nothing that decades of historical lead mining and refinement dating back to the 19th century would be expected to create hazardous sites that were not listed.

Duties

1. Response to chemical and ecological disasters
   1. Risk analysis for industrial settings
   2. Production of safety standards for industry
   3. Remediation of contaminated sites
2. Extermination of pests and disease-vector insects
   1. Destruction of Suryanmrjyun sevakumb
   2. Destruction of carriers of the Plasmodium malariae
   3. Destruction of the Dreissena polymorpha
   4. Destruction of the Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

Structure

• Executive board
  • Chair Benito Huerta Flores
  • Board members
    • Advisory Board for Chemical Disasters
      • Chair Rafael Medina Garza
      • Board members
    • Advisory Board for Species Control
      • Chair Fredrik Poje
      • Board members