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1. The Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr (2005) boundary, also described as a geomorphological boundary, will be declared as "the Cockpit Country".
2. The second boundary, "the Cockpit Country Protected Area" (CCPA) not only will be declared, but once gazetted, the area will be closed to mining and quarrying.
WRC completely rejects the Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr (2005) so-called geomorphological boundary definition for "the Cockpit Country". Not only did Lyew-Ayee Jr. make the incorrect assertion that cockpit morphology doesn't form in the Walderston - Brown's Town Formation of the White Limestone Group (ie., he excluded contiguous areas of cockpit karst, most notably in the northeast of Cockpit Country), but no definition of Cockpit Country can exclude Maroon heritage. In particular, no definition of Cockpit Country can exclude Accompong.
While a large area of the landscape will be closed to mining - an action perhaps without precendence on Jamaica - the CCPA irrationally excluded important historical and culture sites as well as failed to encompass the full Cockpit Country aquifer which provides Jamaica with 40% of its freshwater. The CCPA requires a functioning buffer zone (aka The Outer Boundary aka the Cockpit Country Stakeholders Group (CCSG) Boundary) to protect all of the features in the landscape we call Cockpit Country.
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