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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 |
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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.
These species forage mostly on bromeliads - epiphytic
plants growing on the branches of trees. But bromeliads are especially
vulnerable to forest fragmentation and caustic dust from mining. Read more here.
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