Welcome to our presentations on how bauxite mining
would affect Cockpit Country.
It must not happen!

Implications of Mining Cockpit Country

A Case Study Bauxite Mining in Mt Diablo

Bauxite Mining and The Environmental Laws of Jamaica (a JET presentation)

Impacts of mining on epiphytes (aka Wild Pine and orchids) Click here for a 2007 survey report by Philip Gonsiska, prepared for WRC		Epiphytes are very sensitive to environmental changes in light, temperature and humidity. Anything that increases temperature and / or lowers humidity in an extant forest can have lasting impacts. The numbers of epiphytic species and the numbers of individual species decreases in a hillside forest when bottomlands are disturbed by bauxite mining or forestry pine plantations. That is, we see an "edge effect"in the forest microclimate. As long as the bauxitic soils remain in the ground, the presence of small-scale agriculture in enclosed depressions does not disturb the overall numbers of epiphytic species or the numbers of individuals in the forested hillside.

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