According to reports in the Jamaica Observer, Prime Minister Portia Simpson has postponed a diplomatically charged round-trip of Europe, meeting instead with senior executives of the Alcoa mining company in preparation for a major uptick in mining investments in Jamaica.
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Drilling for bauxite samples in Jamaica's Cockpit Country is
threatening the plants and animals that live in the region's moist
tropical limestone forest. At risk species such as the black-billed parrot, the yellow-billed
parrot, the ring-tailed pigeon and the plain pigeon live in this
uninhabited area of yellow and white limestone karst terrain.
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Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, around 450 km² of uninhabited moist tropical limestone forest with its extraordinary landscape of peaks, potholes and caves, and home to 27 of Jamaica’s 28 endemic bird species is at risk from bauxite mining. |
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