Land of Look Behind...Cockpit Country has a high level of endemism and is the largest example of a wet limestone forest in Jamaica. It is spread over 1,160 square kilometres and extends from Trelawny to St James, St Elizabeth, St Ann and Manchester. It’s defining features are sculpted peaks and depressions created by years of erosion.

JAMAICANS across all 14 parishes appear ready to dip into their pockets to save the Cockpit Country — the vast limestone forest centred in Trelawny which has been the subject of a virtual tug-o-war between Government and conservationists in recent years.
On the one hand, there is intention to mine the area for bauxite, while on the other, the arguments are that such a move would cause severe biodiversity loss and deforestation in an area which boasts 1,500 different plant species, 65 of which are found only in Cockpit Country.

Video: Cockpit Country - Voices From Jamaica's Heart
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Psj_UcqQY

Observer Link:
www.jamaicaobserver.com/environment/-We-will-pay-to-save-COCKPIT-Country-

Jamaica Environmental Trust: Save Cockpit Country
www.jamentrust.org/advocacy-a-law/campaigns/cockpit-country.html


In the end, our country will be defined not only by what we create, but what we refuse to destroy.
--John C. Sawhill (Past President of The Nature Conservancy)

Some Zen for Z.

What is the sound of a forest being developed?

brav-Oh turey...one hand clapping; one warning bell without a clapper!

Support our JET* (with your membership & donations), they are our canaries singing, through oft-strangled throats, for OUR survival deep in our mythical coal mines...(cockpits, mangroves, fisheries,dunes, woodlands....)

Yes, you koan...

*Jamaica Environmental Trust (JET): on a shoestring budget, Diana McCaulay, her legal & administrative team, "affiliated" with their stellar independent, filmmaker, Esther Figueroa, have brought heart, head & soul to issues of the destructive effects of disproportionate (short-sighted) development on our beloved Jam-Rock.

Link to Esther's Environmental Films on Youtube:
https://petchary.wordpress.com/tag/esther-figueroa

The way politics work in Jamaica, they will mine the area.
Same thing will happen to Goat Island !
Greed over conservation. Sad but true !
ONE LOVE !!
Mike

Go back to sitting in now-here Z!

Sound is: Brap....Brapp....damn things flooded!...Brep.brep.brepppp.....RRRrrrrrrr....!!!