JO - Cockpit Country discovery centre opens

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Jamaica Observer

Cockpit Country discovery centre opens

Our Habitat

Mark Cummings

Sunday, June 08, 2008

THE Forestry Department, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), has opened a discovery centre in this rural community, as part of their effort to manage the resources of the biodiversity-rich Cockpit Country.

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Snippet(s):

"The Cockpit Country, home to the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica, is considered one of the island's more important ecological and cultural assets."

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"Dubbed the 'gateway to the Cockpit Country', the centre, was built at a cost of US$700,000 with funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under its Parks in Peril programme."