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• Birding in Jamaica – Birding on the Edge

  12 July 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 3 comments ]

  Here is an interesting video on birding in Jamaica. It's a great introduction to our great variety of endemic and other bird species (please excuse the few Nikon camera ads). Jamaica is considered a premier birding hotspot for Caribbean birding with ...

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• Ambassabeth Cabins – an Eco Tourism Treasure in Portland

  7 July 2011 by Karin in Environment,Good Food,Worth A Visit [ 4 comments ]

  Ambassabeth Eco-Cabins is a unique experience of Jamaican rural life and a authentic eco- tourism vacation or weekend get-away. Located in the upper Rio Grande Valley about 15 miles south of Port Antonio, the Ambassabeth Cabins are owned and operated by ...

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• A New Video About the Cockpit Country

  3 July 2011 by Karin in Environment [ no comments ]

    [caption id="attachment_12728" align="alignnone" width="428" caption="Hiking in the Cockpit Country"][/caption] Check out Hugh Dixon and Bart Robinson from Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) talking with Simon Crosskill on TVJ's Smile Jamaica about Jamaica's Cockpit Country and a new video being produced there. To ...

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• Help Protect our Fisheries – Jamaica Challenged to Raise Matching Funds

  26 June 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 1 comment ]

  [caption id="attachment_12660" align="alignnone" width="570" caption="Pedro Cay, Jamaica "][/caption] Jamaica Challenged to Raise U$20,000 by June 30th for Sustained Protection of Vital Fisheries. Nature Conservancy (TNC), the world’s leading conservation organization, has received a U$20,000 donation to its Jamaica programme under its ...

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• Cockpit Country – the Green Heart of Jamaica

  22 June 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 3 comments ]

  Here is a very cool video about a documentary being made in the Cockpit Country. Please check it out and see how you can help to get it made. About Cockpit Country: A Paradise in Peril Miles of hiking trails. Scores ...

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• Green Expo 2011 on This Weekend

  7 June 2011 by Karin in Environment,Happening on the Edge 2011 [ no comments ]

  GREEN EXPO 2011 is on this weekend! The Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) will be staging Green Expo 2011 from June 10-12th at the National Arena. Green Expo is an environmental exposition featuring exhibits which expose the thousands of attendees, ...

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• Save Jamaica’s Blue Lagoon

  4 May 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 4 comments ]

  The following is by a concerned Jamaican Mr. Marc Goodman. One of the Caribbean's most spectacular and tranquil natural sites, Jamaica's Blue Lagoon has long been abandoned to touts, illegal activity and decay, but is now being developed (most recent being ...

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• How to Green a Hotel – A Case Study of Hotel Mocking Bird Hill

  9 April 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 4 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_12048" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Hotel Mocking Bird Hill, Portland"][/caption] Here's the link to Barbara Walker's presentation made at the recent ECCO Magazine's Green conference. The presentation was entitled "Reducing Carbon Emissions Through Sustainable Living" and focused on the procedures and management strategies implemented to ...

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