Explore Jamaica - Cockpit Country (PART 1) #TourismAwarenessWeek
All this week is #TourismAwarenessWeek and in this episode of 'Explore Jamaica', we go caving in the island's most untarnished region, The Cockpit Country, with the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA).
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Cockpit Country Is Our Home
Cockpit Country Is Our Home
A 28 minute educational video about the biota of Cockpit Country, the interior western region of Jamaica. Through breathtaking, intimate footage you get to experience Cockpit Country's environment and the animals found there. The video explains the interconnected ecology of Cockpit Country, the role of trees and plants such as Bromeliads, and features Jamaican bats; the Jamaican Slider Turtle; the Jamaican Laughing Frog; the Jamaican Yellow Boa; a variety of birds including Doves, Pigeons, Yellow and Black-billed Parrots, Olive-throated Parakeets, Hummingbirds, the Jamaican Tody, and the Jamaican Woodpecker; Snails; and Anancy, the Golden Spider.
Made especially for a Jamaican audience, it is narrated by residents of Cockpit Country who represent a cross-section of ages, and features the on camera talent of Lorna Williams Christie, Susan Koenig, and Wayne Francis.
Funded through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Produced by Esther Figueroa, Vagabond Video, for Windsor Research Centre. For more information and to purchase the video, contact Windsor Research Centre at windsor@cwjamaica.com and visit Windsor's website: cockpitcountry.co
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Cockpit Country - Voices from Jamaica's Heart
Cockpit Country - Voices from Jamaica's Heart
In 2006, the then Government of Jamaica permitted two prospecting licenses for mining in the Cockpit Country, the interior Western section of the island of Jamaica. Cockpit Country is one of two remaining areas in Jamaica with significant areas of healthy forests. It is the source of water for five parishes, a sanctuary for endemic, rare and endangered species, the home of the Western Maroons and a place of important cultural and historical significance for Jamaicans. A coalition called the Cockpit Country Stakeholders Group (CCSG) was formed to fight against mining in Cockpit Country, and as part of this effort the film Cockpit Country - Voices from Jamaica's Heart was made. Voices is a 24 minute documentary featuring a cross section of residents who live in Cockpit Country. The film describes the unique natural, historical, cultural and social aspects of the region, presents the negative effects of bauxite mining in other parts of Jamaica, and expresses the desires of Cockpit Country residents to see their home preserved without the impacts of mining. Voices is a 2007 co-production of Vagabond Media and Jamaica Environment Trust, it aired on Jamaican television and was shown through-out Cockpit Country at community venues. Following the public outcry and a suspension of the licenses by the Minister of Agriculture, one of the prospecting licenses was surrendered, while another remains in effect for the western region of Cockpit Country, including the town and environs of Accompong.
In March 2013, the CCSG learned that a boundary study of Cockpit Country, commissioned by the Government of Jamaica, and conducted by the University of the West Indies, was about to be the subject of public consultation. This is an important step in the protection of Cockpit Country, as a boundary has never been declared. Vagabond Media, the Jamaica Environment Trust and the CCSG continue to work together for the protection of this unique Jamaican place and all who live there.
For more information contact Jamaica Environment Trust: jamentrust@cwjamaica.com
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Explore Jamaica Cockpit Country | Part 2
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Cockpit Country Protest (Pt4) - Outside of Parliament
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Cockpit Country Coalition and Concerned Citizens demonstration at the House of Parliament on Duke St. in Kingston on September 17, 2019 the assembly point was at west National Heroes Circle Kingston.
The aim of the demonstration was to make a firm, resounding and decisive statement to the government of Jamaica that the people resident in Cockpit Country, Jamaica, the Diaspora - and our resting ancestors, are diametrically opposed to any form of mining in the Cockpit Country Landscape.
The message to the government is to withdraw the ill-conceived Cockpit Country Protected Area Boundary presented in Parliament on November 21, 2017 which was designed deliberately by government to facilitate the Mining of rich Bauxite deposits known to be in Cockpit Country landscape and starting with the mining of Special Mining Lease Area 173.
We call on the government to replace the “Cockpit Country Protected Area Boundary” with the Cockpit Country Stakeholders Boundary which was recommended as the outer border of Cockpit Country Landscape in the 2013 island-wide public consultations report on defining the Cockpit Country Boundary done by Prof. Webber.
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In-depth ANALYSIS of the COCKPIT COUNTRY situation
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A comprehensive breakdown of the situation facing the Cockpit Country re the Government and Noranda Bauxiut company
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Cockpit Country Biota
As part of Windsor Research Centre’s “Cockpit Country Is Our Home” informational series, “Cockpit Country Biota” is a short video about the types of unique endemic animals found in Cockpit Country including snails, bats, frogs, snakes, and parrots.
Produced by Esther Figueroa 2014.
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It is easy being distracted by our daily routine that we forget to care for that which we have been blessed with. I have traveled and witnessed many countries, states and cities being jealous of that which Jamaica possesses. JAMAICA we are Blessed. JAMAICANS hear the Voice of Nature.
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Five things about Cockpit Country Protected Area
NOVEMBER 21, 2017: PM declares no mining in the Cockpit Country Protected Area. Here are five things you should know.
Save Cockpit Country (Ep 1): Cockpit Country is Jamaica's Heartland
On November 21, 2017, Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Rt. Hon. Andrew Holness announced the designated Cockpit Country Protected Area (CCPA) boundary in Parliament. In his announcement, Prime Minister Holness said the area would comprise of approximately 74,726 hectares and will include existing forest reserves, significant hydrological and ecological features and cultural and heritage sites.
Through the Advancing the Protection of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country project, JET continues to advocate for an expedited ground-truthing of the CCPA boundary, establishment of buffer zones and the involvement of civil society and local communities in management planning for the protected area.
Episode 1 of our new PSA series produced under the project highlights the importance of this rich ecological and cultural landscape, underscoring the need for Cockpit Country's protection.
COCKPIT COUNTRY | MOUNTAINS JULY 22, 2019
The Cockpit Mountains on the island of JAMAICA (Xaymaca) is known for it's unique ecosystem and heritage. A land tied into the hearts of its people and history.
July 22, 2019 A protest was done.
Cockpit Country - Jamaican Perspectives Part 1
An Interview with Hugh M Dixon - Trelawny Historian and Trelawny Environmental Foundation Agency Director
Jamaica 2013. Tropical forest, caves and mangrove trees. Cockpit Country
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Cockpit Country | Albert Town | Ulster Spring | Alps | Trelwany | #Jamaica
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Mining in the Cockpit Country has been in the news lately. Today we explore this area by road.
We begin in Albert Town through Ulster Spring and end in Alps.
Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth parishes in Jamaica. The land is marked by steep-sided hollows, as much as 120 metres (390 ft) deep in places, which are separated by conical hills and ridges. Maroons who had escaped from plantations used the difficult territory for its natural defenses to develop communities outside the control of Spanish or British colonists.
In the late seventeenth century, the Cockpit Country was a place of refuge for Jamaican Maroons fleeing slavery. During the course of the First Maroon War, there were two Leeward Maroon communities - Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) and Accompong Town. Cudjoe's Town was located in the mountains in the southern extremities of Saint James Parish, Jamaica, close to the border of Westmoreland Parish. Accompong is situated just to the south of Cudjoe's Town, on the border between Westmoreland and Saint Elizabeth Parish.
When the Leeward Maroons signed a peace treaty in 1740, they assisted the colonial authorities in pursuing runaway slaves who sought refuge in the Cockpit Country. However, these runaways allied with Trelawny Town during the Second Maroon War. When the Maroons of Trelawny Town were deported in 1796, the Maroons of Accompong had difficulty policing the Cockpit Country, and several communities of runaway slaves established themselves there. After the removal of the Trelawny Maroons, the colonial militia built a barracks at their village, which they renamed Maroon Town, Jamaica.
At the start of the nineteenth century, Cuffee (Jamaica) established a community of runaway slaves in the Cockpit Country, and resisted attempts by the colonial authorities and the Maroons of Accompong Town to rout them. Then, in the second and third decades of the century, another group of runaway slaves from Trelawny Parish set up a community in the Cockpit Country at Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come. They also succeeded in resisting attempts by the colonial militias and Accompong Town to rout them. During the Baptist War of 1831-2, more slaves ran away and found freedom in the Cockpit Country.
Accompong Town is an indigenous Maroon community that still has a certain recognized autonomy under the independent Jamaican government.
On the north, the main defining feature is the fault-based Escarpment, a long ridge that extends from Flagstaff in the west, through Windsor in the centre, to Campbells and the start of the Barbecue Bottom Road (B10). The Barbecue Bottom Road, which runs north-south, high along the side of a deep, fault-based valley in the east, is the only drivable route across the Cockpit Country. Walkers and riders can use two old, historical trails cross further west, the Troy Trail, and the Quick Step Trail. As of 2006 they are seldom used and difficult to find.
In the southwest, near Quick Step, is the district known as the Land of Look Behind. It was so named because Spanish horsemen venturing into this region of hostile escaped slaves were said to have ridden two to a mount, one rider facing to the rear to keep a precautionary watch against ambush.
Where the ridges between sinkholes in the plateau area have dissolved, flat-bottomed basins or valleys have been formed that are filled with terra rosa soils, some of the most productive on the island. The largest basin is the Vale of Clarendon, 80 kilometres (50 mi) long and 32 kilometres (20 mi) wide. Queen of Spains Valley, Nassau Valley, and Cave Valley were formed by the same process.
Shallow caves, known locally as cockpits, are particularly common around the hamlet of Quick Step, reaching a density of 15 per km2. Noteworthy caves include Marta Tick Cave and Minocal's Glory Hole. Ecotourism has been proposed for the hamlet of Quick Step, at the end of the road into the heart of Cockpit County.
The Cockpit Country is Jamaica's largest remaining contiguous rainforest. In 1979 an unpublished paper proposed preserving the area as a National Park. In 1994 the geographer Alan Eyre proposed that the Cockpit Country be designated as a World Heritage Site to preserve its environment. A petition for protection of the area was submitted to Prime Minister Bruce Golding in 2006.
As of April 2013, public consultations have begun on the definition of the boundary proposed in a recently released study by Mitchell, Miller, Ganapathy, and Spence of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Eleutherodactylus sisyphodemus, a small, critically endangered frog species, is known only from the Cockpit Country. Cockpit Country hosts 90% of the global population of black-billed amazon, a parrot endemic to Jamaica.
Cockpit Country is also home to the Jamaican Swallowtail, the largest butterfly in the Western hemisphere. Cockpit Country is one of the last remaining homes for the species.
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The Cockpit Country Is More Valuable Than Bauxite - Andrew Holness Would Be Foolish To Allow Mining
Andrew Holness would be silly to allow those people to start mining anywhere near the Cockpit Country. This would make his legacy permanently stained.
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Windsor Great Cave in The Cockpit Country, Jamaica
A trek through part of The Windsor Great Cave from the Windsor entrance through to the Bamboo Bottom entrance and back.
Cockpit Country | Trelawny, Jamaica
My Adventure to Trelawny in Jamaica!!
My friends and I went with the tour group IslandLegendz (check out their Instagram @islandlegendz) into a sinkhole. We discovered caves and a beautiful but freezing waterfall and river! This is definitely a place to go on your next trip to Jamaica :D
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