Environment
The Cockpit Country is Jamaica's largest remaining contiguous rainforest. In 1979 an unpublished paper proposed the possibility of a National Park In 1994 the geographer Alan Eyre proposed that the Cockpit Country be zoned a World Heritage Site. A petition for protection of the area was submitted to Prime Minister Bruce Golding in 2006.
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