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2 projects · 2 organizations

Latest from Jamaica

Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA)

Regrowing Cockpit Country's Forest

Forests

A community-rooted Trelawny NGO is replanting native forest in Jamaica's Cockpit Country, the karst wilderness that supplies 40 percent of the island's freshwater.

220hectaresHectares of forest being restored
40ktreesNative trees to be planted
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Oceans & Coasts

A Jamaican marine NGO nurses staghorn and elkhorn coral in underwater nurseries and guards the fish sanctuary that revived Oracabessa Bay.

1,500coral piecesCoral fragments outplanted onto East Portland's reefs
16khatchlingsHawksbill turtle hatchlings released annually
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