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In response to popular demand, the Jamaica Environmental Advocacy Network/Cockpit Country Stakeholders Group has decided to give citizens a means for expressing their concern about mining in the Cockpit Country - and what this may mean for the future of Jamaica.


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Procrastination is the thief of time!
Written by Garnett Waite, on 2007-01-09 07:24:48
I want to applaud the environmentalist in Jamaica. The poor and uneducated Jamaican have no idea of how valuable what you are all doing impacts their life. Can we find a way to mass produce lobby groups all over Jamaica in different areas of interests? If corporate Jamaica or people in the diaspora could help in getting issues out into the public we could do alot to improve accountability in our island.
Petition to save Cockpit County
Written by Avery Black, on 2007-01-03 19:12:18
As a Jamaica residing abroad, I want 
to contribute in whatever ways I can to save Cockpit Country. Jamaica is such a precious place unlike any other. We must fight the government on this one.
Written by RitaLouise, on 2007-01-03 19:12:04
Please reserve the Cockpit Country.
Written by Claire Shaw, on 2007-01-03 19:11:48
i live in jamaica and want cockpit saved
No Mining Whatsoever
Written by Maikel Oerbekke / Eco Tec, on 2007-01-03 19:12:55
First I like to express my support to the NGO community in Jamaica for coming together and trying to stop the absolute disaster that is coming towards us. I would like to recommend that this website is built out more so it will show what bauxite mining is costing us in a real sense. Both profits and environmental clean up, so we can really see the big picture. At the same time we need to be shown what it will actually cost us if just one viable plant species is lost, that can contribute to one of the major diseases that is currently unsolved globally. Then after that the amount of environmental damage that cockpit mining can cause needs to be shown to the wider jamaican public. I already know the answer and for the vulnerable ecosystem that Jamaica is, the risks are simply to high. In Eco Tec's perspective as a company, it is simply unacceptable to risk these odds. Our government needs to be convinced about this and hard action needs to be taken to do so. I recommend hard campaigning to do so. Also I want to see other companies to contribute and expose there stand so that the lobby gets widened. I would like to recommend that everybody that reads this message contribute their point of view so that we can show all stakeholders the repercussions that will be felt island-wide, should Cockpit Country be mined.
No Mining !!
Written by Stacy Ann Tomlinson, on 2007-01-06 11:07:15
I am shocked that mining of the cockpit country was even considered. This clearly shows the level of importance our leaders put on the environment .The constant degradation of the our coastline to facilitate the hotels is one thing and now mining the cockpit country ? Have these people any idea the number of endemic species that call the cockpit country home and the level of ecological importance the cockpit country has . The line has to be drawn somewhere . I urge fellow environmentalist to join the fight to protect Jamaica's fragile ecosystem. Become active before its too late !!!
a true heritage
Written by harvey "mac" williams, on 2007-01-06 12:59:02
i am sitting here reading this article and its killing me inside to know that this is where i was born, how much pride i feel to know that this is one of the best known mountainous area and how much it means to the jamaican way of life and our government would just give in to the financial part of this deal and not to the nostalgic part of the whole thing. jamaicans are world re known for their pride but it now seems like we have a government with no back bone and no sense of pride, a simple sell out government. i was born in bunkers hill and i remembered how poor my grand mother was but when the bauxite companies passed by in the seventies and offered her all kind of money to sell her land, she refused. we lived poorly but we lived with pride. all of us kids are grown up now and we all made good for ourselves but my grand kids will never see or experience what i did in the cockpit country, thanks to a government with no back bone or pride!!! the cockpit country means too much to our history and our heritage, mining or leveling off the mountains is one of the stupidest idea i ever heard...whats next!!!
reclaimed??
Written by Delano lewis, on 2007-02-07 04:39:46
I have lived in an area mined by a bauxite company. They claim they reclaim land... all I see is trees and mountains removed and flat pasture land for cattle left. They call that reclaimed? Give me a break!!! They have no idea of the damage they do to the land and the people. That word should not be used by anyone.... pasture with grass is not the same as forest!!! Any fool could see that difference. If you want proof, go to Manchester and look at all the land they claim is reclaimed.
cockpit country
Written by Nicole Wilmot-Bush, on 2007-02-12 14:00:40
I understand the commercial value of mining cockpit country and the monetary gain, but the destruction of one of God's gifts to us is a terrible desecration of nature. I think we need to save the area for the sake of our children and their children etc. One must look at the butterfly effect and try to see the bigger picture of what the impact could be... save our natural beauty!!
cockpit
Written by maizelin Pitter, on 2007-04-25 12:09:25
we cannot destroy all the natural beauty in Jamaica. It's time someone take a stand against this terrible desecration of nature. we need our natural reserve to protect our wildlife and some of the soon extinct creatures in it natural habitat. Too much emphasis is been placed on monetary and personal gain and not the people. 
The cockpit is an untouched part of our history and should remain that way.

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