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Yeah, most of the athletes in Jamaica are from this area they call the Cockpit Country; that's where most of the Jamaican slaves were.
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Awesome trip to the Cockpit Country and the Windsor Caves.
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The WWF/IUCN study publication; Centers of Plant Diversity and Endemism recognizes 2 critical areas in Jamaica, totaling 700 km2 (the Blue and John Crow Mountains and Cockpit Country).
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Among the most immediate serious threats are deforestation as a result of large and small-scale cultivation, new town and road construction and plans (as yet not approved) to expand bauxite mining in the Cockpit Country and other parts of central Jamaica.
Jamaican dry forests 2008
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A Maroon raiding party had come down from the Cockpit Country, and the nearby garrison that might otherwise have quickly restored order was too busy chasing the raiders back to what the soldiers nervously called the Land of Look Behind, with the result that the uprising was entirely successful.
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Dowen Grant, forester/dendrologist at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, educates Louise Bennett-Coverley All-Age School students (from left) Shanieka Brown, Shanieke Thwaites, and Rascheda Fairclough about the Euphobia Alata plant, which was thought to be extinct for 105 years, but was discovered in the Cockpit Country in July.
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The Cockpit Country, which some years ago was at the centre of a mining controversy between the then government and opposition, is a large tract of forests spread across parts of Trelawny and St Elizabeth.
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This volunteer is also established this website a really good one, might I add to promote hiking related eco-tourism in the area, but there’s some great information on the history of Cockpit Country and beautiful photos on the site.
Sorry, Red Cross, I can’t donate blood today. I already gave a liter to the mosquitoes. 2008
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It is presently more beautiful than those left in the Cockpit Country, "Grant told the Observer yesterday.
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