Cockpit Country is a mountainous, forested area of western Jamaica, rich in biodiversity and home to the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica. Its landscape of steep-sided hills and deep, round valleys eroded from the limestone bedrock is an outstanding example of karst topography. The wet limestone forest of Cockpit Country is Jamaica's largest remaining primary forest and a refuge for rare Jamaican animals such as the Black-billed parrot and the Giant Swallow-tail butterfly, and more than 60 endemic plants. While the Land of Look Behind is famous in Jamaican history, each scientific expedition reveals more natural wonders of this 'biodiversity hotspot' and secrets of its Taino and Maroon heritage. A renewed interest in prospecting for bauxite and limestone in the Cockpit Country has sparked a campaign led by a wide cross-section of local and overseas Jamaicans - the Cockpit Country Stakeholders' - to protect this unique area. Mining in Cockpit Country would destroy the natural, cultural and archaeological resources of Cockpit Country that are virtually untapped as a source of sustainable livelihoods, especially eco- and heritage tourism, for many rural communities of Jamaica.
Cockpit Country is a mountainous, forested area of western Jamaica, rich in biodiversity and home to the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica. Its landscape of steep-sided hills and deep, round valleys eroded from the limestone bedrock is an outstanding example of karst topography. The wet limestone forest of Cockpit Country is Jamaica's largest remaining primary forest and a refuge for rare Jamaican animals such as the Black-billed parrot and the Giant Swallow-tail butterfly, and more than 60 endemic plants. While the Land of Look Behind is famous in Jamaican history, each scientific expedition reveals more natural wonders of this 'biodiversity hotspot' and secrets of its Taino and Maroon heritage. A renewed interest in prospecting for bauxite and limestone in the Cockpit Country has sparked a campaign led by a wide cross-section of local and overseas Jamaicans - the Cockpit Country Stakeholders' - to protect this unique area. Mining in Cockpit Country would destroy the natural, cultural and archaeological resources of Cockpit Country that are virtually untapped as a source of sustainable livelihoods, especially eco- and heritage tourism, for many rural communities of Jamaica.
I am a Jamaican, born and raised, and it is important for all of us to protect what is ours.
I am a Jamaican. JA to di worl'!!!
I travel to Jamaica.
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2:51 am PDT, Sep 1,
Charmaine Gonzalez, Philippines
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none just concerned
STUFF MINING - THEY AV DESTROYED ENOUGH WITHOUT STARTING ELSEWHERE
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3:26 pm PDT, Aug 20,
Ken Wright, Washington
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9:35 am PDT, Aug 20,
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Aloha, My name is Pikake Quebatay and I am to be married soon to my fiancee Kriston Clarke, who resides in Linstead, Jamaica. Coming also from an island style of living, the elders always taught us to respect the land, because it is what feeds and sustains us. And, well as I have visited Jamaica, I have walked eerie streets of a poverty stricken ghetto paradise. If you are rich in Jamaica, you are well off to enjoy the beautiful sites of the island as Jamaica caters to the travel and tourism industry. But I see the richness of this island does not come from money, but from the richness of the land and its people. Although the physical eye can decieve any foreigner, It is with the heart you must look upon this matter, for where the heart is, there youre treasure will also be. Please consider my comments, for they are truly, madly and deeply encased to a government of power, respectfully and with hope to safeguard Cockpit Country. Thank You