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Cockpit Country Stakeholders Group Established |
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The recent announcement of an unlimited prospecting license for mining interests in the Cockpit Country has generated a swell of stakeholder concerns over the ecological, hydrological and botanic future of the Cockpit Country. At a recent press conference, JEAN members presented numerous concerns about how mining may negatively affect the future of Jamaica's single-largest watershed area.
Since the announcement of these plans, the following organizations have joined to illuminate the fragility of the Cockpit Country, and its importance to Jamaica's island ecology:
- Birdlife International & Birdlife Jamaica
- Bluefields Bay Fishermen’s Friendly Society
- Bluefields Peoples Community Association
- Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation
- Countrystyle Community Tourism Network
- Dolphin Head Trust
- Gideon Education Centre/NEED
- International School of Jamaica
- Jamaica Environment Trust
- Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association
- Jamaica Orchid Society
- Manchester Environment Protection Association
- Natural History Society of Jamaica
- Negril Environment Protection Trust
- Northern Jamaica Conservation Association
- Plant Conservation Centre
- Portland Environment Protection Association
- South Trelawny Environmental Association
- Sustainable Communities Foundation
- The Nature Conservancy
- Windsor Research Centre
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