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Bauxite mining threatens unique Jamaican wildlife

October 23, 2006 — Filed in: Conservation

BirdLife International

©B Coleman/BirdLife, More than 95% of the world's Black-billed Amazons Amazona agilis live in Cockpit Country, where they are threatened by bauxite mining

Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, around 450 km² of uninhabited moist tropical limestone forest with its extraordinary landscape of peaks, potholes and caves, and home to 27 of Jamaica’s 28 endemic bird species is at risk from bauxite mining.

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