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CONSERVATION  ACTION  PLAN: 
COCKPIT  COUNTRY

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This set of fifteen actions was developed by a broad range of stakeholders as part of TNC-Jamaica's Conservation Action Plan and are expected to mitigate the threats to Cockpit Country biodiversity. The first three of these actions cover general initiatives which will affect all targets; the remainder affect one or several threats as indicated.
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ACTIONS

THREATS

Mining / Quarrying Forest conversion Alien (non-native) invasive
species
Inappropriate
garbage
disposal
Incompatible
agricultural
practices
Amateur/ scientific
collecting;
hunting
Increase
capacity
of GoJ/ NGO's/ CBO's
1 Develop and implement an effective mechanism for co-management of the Cockpit Country conservation area. X X X X X X X
2 Collaboratively develop and implement a long-term funding strategy for Cockpit Country conservation. X X X X X X X
3 Establish self-sustaining and effective Local Forest Management Committees incorporating local C.B.O.s X X X X X X X
4 Investigate the most appropriate means of amending the legislation that allows the precedence of The Mining Act over the Forestry Act and other conservation acts within Cockpit Country X X
5 Develop an economic case for the conservation of Cockpit Country by conducting an economic valuation of the ecological and cultural services provided by Cockpit Country X X
6 Develop and implement a public awareness campaign X
7 Develop Atlas of Cockpit Country targets and threats in order to quantify them and guide and refine conservation actions X X X X X X
8 Facilitate and promote the declaration of private land holdings under forest as Forest Management Areas X
9 Develop techniques and implement projects to restore forest in critical areas such as abandoned agricultural lands, river banks and cave entrances using early succession native species X X
10 Develop and disseminate appropriate best-management practices for small-scale and subsistence farming to at least 50 farmers (one in each community) working in close proximity to Cockpit Country X X
11 Provide sufficient incentives for land owners with crown land inholdings to maintain at least 40 hectares in forest until Forestry Department can declare these inholdings as forest. X X
12 Develop detailed data on the distribution and impacts of major invasive species (bamboo, Asian fern, American cockroach, shiny cowbird etc) on Cockpit Country biodiversity and develop priorities for control. X
13 Select, promote and disseminate appropriate sewage disposal technology in at least one critical Cockpit Country community. X
14 Develop a business plan and a field demonstration plot to produce yam-sticks through agroforestry as an alternative source of income to collecting saplings from forest. X
15 Work with NEPA and other agencies to enforce existing laws and regulations protecting Cockpit Country biodiversity (including orchids, bromeliads, parrots, butterflies, research specimens) . X