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Victory for Jamaican conservationists?

June 12, 2006 — Filed in: Conservation

BirdLife International

Leo Douglas,
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The Yellow-billed Amazon (Amazona collaria) is classified as Vulnerable because it has a small and fragmented range, with suitable habitat declining in extent, area and quality. Numbers are also declining because of trapping

A Jamaican High Court judge has ruled in favour of the Northern Jamaica Conservation Association (NJCA), Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) and four individuals in a Judicial Review case concerning the granting of an environmental permit for part of a planned 1,918-room hotel in the Island’s bird-rich Pear Tree Bottom area of Runaway Bay.

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