Cockpit Country Is Our Home

"Cockpit Country Is Our Home"
A 28 minute educational video about the biota of Cockpit Country, the interior western region of Jamaica. Through breathtaking, intimate footage you get to experience Cockpit Country's environment and the animals found there. The video explains the interconnected ecology of Cockpit Country, the role of trees and plants such as Bromeliads, and features Jamaican bats; the Jamaican Slider Turtle; the Jamaican Laughing Frog; the Jamaican Yellow Boa; a variety of birds including Doves, Pigeons, Yellow and Black-billed Parrots, Olive-throated Parakeets, Hummingbirds, the Jamaican Tody, and the Jamaican Woodpecker; Snails; and Anancy, the Golden Spider.
Made especially for a Jamaican audience, it is narrated by residents of Cockpit Country who represent a cross-section of ages, and features the on camera talent of Lorna Williams Christie, Susan Koenig, and Wayne Francis.
Funded through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Produced by Esther Figueroa, Vagabond Video, for Windsor Research Centre. For more information and to purchase the video, contact Windsor Research Centre at [e-mail] and visit Windsor's website: www.cockpitcountry.co
www.jamaicaforsale.net

[@rosemignott4466]

Please save the cockpit country , stand up for your rights Jamaican people

[@venshaw9005]

I never know about that place until I buck up on this video hun smh

[@BirdBath1]

Rose Mignott, look at bird bath

[@DianeBauknight]

Beautiful video. Save the Cockpit Country!

[@BirdBath1]

Diane Bauknight, look at bird bath

[@user-ns5uk6rn6z]

Excellent program, cinematography and photography are well done... #ProductionLife #CockpitCountry #TourismOurBusiness #CommunityTourism #StopAllBauxiteMiningInJamaica #SaveOurEnvironment #StopSellingOurDirt #FoodSecurity #FarmersRule #JamaicanLife

[@trevorthomas2773]

Any government or individual who disturbs this place will have to pay.This is no joke.

[@arawakofwestindies8836]

Fi real love your energy

[@boldbosstv5602]

www.nycaribnews.com/articles/pm-holness-on-cockpit-country-mining/

[@roslaing6893]

Love it Love it Love it!!!! For Goodness Sake...let's all protect it!!! JAMAICA LAND WE LOVE!!!

[@BirdBath1]

Ros Laing, look at bird bath

[@michelleclarke526]

Breathtakingly beautiful amazing scenery.

[@BirdBath1]

Michelle Clarke, look at bird bath

[@lovelovelioness6859]

I agree .. we should protect and preserve the cockpit country even if we have to use our bodies as a group of protesters and stop them... I think the artists and organizers in Jamaica should perform a free concert to get more attention on this situation and to get the word out for a peaceful protest or several protests until they listen to us and stop the foolery.

[@BirdBath1]

Love love lioness, look at bird bath

[@hughgrant4778]

Absolutely 💯 I’m ready to create a human shield to protect our land. We can’t depend on the government. People are you ready

[@lovelovelioness6859]

@@hughgrant4778 nope they're not ready. Only if they was going to get some freeness. Are the government command them to do something stupid. Or if the police shoot a criminal. Not saying they always shoot criminals sometimes the innocent. 😭. Some police are criminals but that's not the point right now. I think most Jamaicans have lost their zeal and they're afraid to stand. 😭 It's very sad.

[@hughgrant4778]

@@lovelovelioness6859 Very sad, but we’ll live in hope 🙏

[@fishchicken4188]

I have to comment again If they destroy this place where will these beautiful animals live? Because the cockpit country is their home, oh my I love watching these animals I smiled throughout the entire video, wish they would just leave this place alone.

[@mariasutherland8378]

Now is the time for my Jamaicans to put minds and might together and fight for the protection of this beautiful treasure Cockpit Country!Dont let outsiders destroy what little we have left as Ours!

[@BirdBath1]

Maria Sutherland, look at bird bath

[@eastvibrationrecords1746]

Nature is Life don't destruct it. Money can't buy Life love and respect all living organisms.

[@jacquelinedwyer99]

help cockpit country to take care of itself. ah so beautiful! protection is the way of life....

[@monicamcfarlane9086]

One of the Best Nature videos I've ever seen We must do all we can to protect our Beautiful island ♥️

[@BirdBath1]

Monica McFarlane, look at bird bath

[@stanthompson701]

Habitats for Life!

[@ronem5644]

I absolutely adore this video and its many narrations!!!!

[@BirdBath1]

Ron Em, look at bird bath

[@bancrofthugh5672]

I can never forget living and and enjoying the health benefits, natural resources like plants, food that were farmed and grown in the Cockpit country. I also enjoyed the waterways such the lagoon river,Martha Brae river, the streams and tributaries.

[@BirdBath1]

Bancroft Hugh, look at bird bath

[@davonsimmonds4435]

Excellent work Esther,I think these protected places should be protected for ever and also use as tour sites especially our young generation.

[@paulthomas337]

tell me it’s the calm before the storm please,Jamaican please rise up enough is enough !!!!

[@trevorthomas2773]

When the time comes politicians who sell and defile Jamaica your heads will role. Can't say you weren't warned.We maroons are watching and waiting.

[@BritishJamaican777]

@@trevorthomas2773 I wasnt born Maroon, but I have the Maroon spirit and will join you in your quest to preserve Cockpit and the rest of Jamaica from destruction from these greedy politicians. The Most High isnt sleeping!!

[@pickaenigma]

How can they destroy this lovely place save the cockpit country

[@bateriadepetaluma]

Just returned to the US from Jamaica and I'm missing it so much. I will have to return. This is a wonderful film. Thank you!

[@pinky1489]

This so beautiful. I hope it remains unchanged.

[@TheSuperscotia]

Absolutely beautiful! Well narrated. Coming for a visit!

[@mwenvlay]

i'm going to take my husband and son to visit in february. very excited.

[@TheSuperscotia]

Absolutely!

[@fishchicken4188]

I didn't know snakes live in Jamaica wow this cockpit movement really helped me to learn so much about my country I didn't even know there was a place called cockpit country in Jamaica until the protests against the government for trying to sell this place feel ashamed I know only so little about my country. Never knew there were so much beautiful unique animals living in my little country, so beautiful and I enjoyed watching the documentary, please save our cockpit country, Mr Holness leave this beautiful place alone.

[@kenroderick4034]

Natural Beauty

[@ronniecoburn13]

Had to search hard for this video after learning about it in Dr. Cooper’s column. What a treasure! Beautiful

[@BirdBath1]

Ronnie Coburn, look at bird bath

[@herbertjohnsonakhuemystic679]

Give thanks and praise,, Yes the master of the universe is For Real,,I thank the Almighty master to have given me grandparents to be born in Jamaica I like what you are doing we,,,,,,we ,are who we are out of many one people Ian this time we are looking to move forward peace and love let me be clear the National Heroes switch has nanny pod Brooklyn

[@deborahwilliams6428]

I have now seen birds and other species that I have not seen in years . After Baxite started with the hills in st Ann a lot of these species disappear

[@stephanlarsen8169]

Winston Rodney burning spear hails from St Anne's

[@frankleyden7961]

the first time i trod the cockpit (quick stepp) leaving was hard, i'm into herbs and will always go up again. LOVE IRIE FM

[@hphinn]

Please watch this video Mr Holness and other politicians.

[@rudeboylexy]

Tell Phillip Paulwell to watch it he was the one that sign the contract in 2004 not Andrew

[@LookToGod]

All dem know what is at stake..but they have no plans of retiring here.

[@triciabrown4487]

Yes

[@BirdBath1]

Look at bird bath 😋

[@CharismaticPlanet3822]

this is a fabulous video.

[@venshaw9005]

Wait dah one minute .......we have snakes in jamaica ???? Mi feel shame to know i don't know that place ( cockpit country ) or if it exit wow !!! So that takes me now to say a lot of jamaicans don't know three quarter of jamaica been as poor as myself who has to have money to visit a lot of places , yes in JAMAICA if someone find a little nice spot to chill free of cost And its nice ....It's funny to say rich ppl come buy it out from different country and that's not rite smh , am hurt to just buck up on this site knowing that we have a lot and not protecting that place that has all those beauty ? OMG !!!!!!!

[@triciabrown4487]

I had no idea either. Wow😯

[@MichaelLee-nn9fo]

as a kid living in Rivoli I always hear the elders say JA no have no snake 😂😂😂

[@kingkongoofficial7977]

A war if dem sell out wi cockpit

[@charminggirl7609]

Don't wait till dem sell it Breda unu fi rise up now and start it.. remember say we are a generation of rebellious slaves that stood up and fought for our freedom yesterday so we affi war for dem today, with their strength. ASE🙏🏾 👊🏿👊🏿

[@boldbosstv5602]

www.nycaribnews.com/articles/pm-holness-on-cockpit-country-mining/

[@boldbosstv5602]

king kongo official and stacy charming read the link

[@talghow-i2326]

Mining has already damaged St Catherin wast is eating away at the limesyone which it has been put in. This has affected the vegitation around the area This environmental tragedy needs to be cleaned up. The wast will hit the water table, and poison it. Companies come and polite and then take off with their money and leave up to fen for ourselves. It has happen begore😰😞😒

[@hentammo]

A must watch nature film, especially for the children of the world...

[@joeliszek9236]

Very cool!

[@amandacristopher7432]

so clean water!

[@TheKingkingg]

Awesome

[@dookoonu2741]

I love this Video so much! Not only the cockpits but it reminds me of the peacefulness and the spirit of natural simplicity of Jamaicans. I want to live on the outskirts of the cockpit country. When next I visit, I am gonna locate 'Me Were' (that's his new nickname) and ask him to give me a tour of the entire cockpit country.

[@souflotv]

do you realize that jamaica is country that is of many ethnicities,and nationalities , there fore many different beliefs?? all jamaicans do not believe in the same thing friend, there are muslims, and hindus, jews and voodoo believers , if its in other parts of the world it is in jamaica, dont be so closed minded

[@stephanlarsen8169]

And Chinese greetings from Tucson Arizona. Sonoran desert. Background Bio science. Specialty in ecology and natural resource management. Love Jah. Earth. One people one planet one love for all things

[@dwayne4715]

That snail on the rock was pretty fast!

[@dwayne4715]

20:23

[@venisdavidson2805]

If the cockpit coutry goes Jamaica will die .

[@soulshadoww55]

Loved your video. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I've been to Jamaica many, many time but I've never ventured into Cockpit country. Your love for the area can certainly be heard in your beautiful accents and voices. Please continue educating your fellow country men about the beauty and diversity of Jamaica. It is a country I've come to love over my many visits. I hope that it remains the same way for future generations.

[@clixofnature1677]

VERY NICE VIDEO. I HOPE TO VISIT COCKPIT COUNTRY SOON TO TAKE BIRD PHOTOGRAPHS.

[@fabeonshaw3666]

Amazing video

[@jasoncummings7052]

It would be useful for the Government and Private sectors to create an awareness campaign to educate the public about this very vital place including tours, publication and certainly programs like this. Very well done...keep up the good work.

[@BirdBath1]

Jason Cummings, look at bird bath

[@springcolley]

Loved it, thank you.

[@BirdBath1]

springcolley, look at bird bath

[@DAVENATCHSTOCKS]

#cockpitcountry trending lately!!

[@mikaylaevens2265]

Yes, mi lovely Jamaica....when we tek Jesus Christ out a di creation a it, den we end up inna mess...all things are created by Him, and by Him all things are held together. Thank you God for this sweet and beautiful Island, continue to guide it with Your mighty hand.

[@jazzymars30]

According to christianity...You cant speak for everybody and science didnt tell me jesus creat the world....volcanic island is still creating in Hawai

[@stephanlarsen8169]

If one believe in creation help save and preserve protect and conserve and sustain

[@malawihechavaria8218]

I am jamaican living aboard and i've been going cockpit frm mi a youth dem fi leave the place and go fix up back the hobb and stop sell out

[@BirdBath1]

malawi Hechavaria, look at bird bath

[@BirdBath1]

Absolutely💯 beautiful😍, I am bird bath 🦅🚿 from Jamaica🇯🇲.. look at the birds I have

[@juliekerry5304]

I WONDER HOW MUCH IT WOULD TAKE TO PAY OFF WHOEVER IS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING SO HORRID AND TERRIBLE AND MAYBE WE COULD TAKE UP A COLLECTION AND TELL THEM TO TAKE THAT AND GET THE F OUTTA THERE 🌈🦋💚💜 THIS IS ABSOLUTELY MIND BOGGLING AND FOR WHAT TO DIG UP ANOTHER NATURAL RESOURCE THAT SOME HUMAN DECIDED THAT WAS NEEDED PROBABLY TO MANUFACTURE SOMETHING WE DONT NEED.......HOW DO SOME PEOPLE SLEEP AT NIGHT I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND 🌈🦋💚💚

[@lorenzostewart6502]

Omg you guys are doing everything to hold our heritage together the only thing left is violence and I really hope we dont have to return to the old days.

[@BirdBath1]

Lorenzo Stewart, look at bird bath

[@damipeddie5134]

Why do people hate a video like this? is it the snake tagging ?

[@stanthompson701]

The beauty of the various life forms are wonderful and the young men and the young women that eloquently described and defended the reasons for harmony amongst all lifeforms are to my delight, a nature lover...

[@hughgrant4778]

What a magical place

[@joanfolkes-phillips4288]

Wow! I live in Jamaica and I’ve never known that the cockpit country was so beautiful. I just forwarded this to my friends and family and we would like to visit. Do we have to make reservations to meet with someone for a tour?

[@BirdBath1]

Joan Folkes-Phillips, look at bird bath

[@jackie9600]

I hope ppl pay attention to what’s important and come off social media and other distractions and work together to make the vampires stop taking from the people

[@jamaicayardlife1018]

How do I become a part of this movement hi am Angelo Henry and I love my Jamaica

[@diasisaacs8599]

No mining in the Cockpit Country. Period!

[@HigherThanYou]

THIS SHOULD BE A WORLD HERITAGE SITE!

[@BirdBath1]

HIGHER THAN YOU, look at bird bath

[@mrjbc46]

Nice video .

[@biggzgaza]

How can u dislike this

[@jojoyah_1236]

DO NOT CUT DOWN or ALTER THE COCKPIT COUNTRY, many animals depend on living there. The ANIMALS will die because their environment has been altered. ALSO, the Cockpit country provides lots of oxygen for the country.

[@chefkrisskofi1073]

Amazing!

[@BirdBath1]

Chefkrisskofi, look at bird bath

[@Gstyletuff]

The government and the Chinese tryin strip Jamaica 🇯🇲 of every thing then them the government it was the next party get money

[@boldbosstv5602]

www.nycaribnews.com/articles/pm-holness-on-cockpit-country-mining/

[@shanmoss3817]

Jamaicans, get up, stand up for our cockpit country!! Jamaica, a land of wood and water. If mining takes place, the beauty of our nation will be no more.

[@BirdBath1]

shan Moss, look at bird bath

[@spiceprinceandsourprinceaj4314]

I love all the animals

[@BirdBath1]

spice prince and sour prince Aj, look at bird bath

[@DAVENATCHSTOCKS]

New subi in tha building Esther

[@getsaved3746]

distruction on anyone who distroy Gods creation

[@redrose11ful]

Thankyou.

[@marciathomas6600]

I would love to visit the cockpit how can i go there

[@90sdancehallkid40]

Just goooo lol

[@lattibeaudiere9558]

loved every last bit p.s hello handsome 😍😍

[@kitabwalli]

Thank you so much for this - esp. on Earth Day. Tweeting it !

[@terrencearcher5108]

Everything is to be done to protect this area. It must be left untouched. More than 20 years ago, I visited on a school trip and that the only place in jamaica I saw a parrot 🦜 in the wild. It a beautiful place and I trust that it remain in its original form .

[@BirdBath1]

Terrence Archer, look at bird bath

[@inchargenow320]

8:47 when I see the sneak my blood run cold" I don't know what i would do if i see one there.

[@nicolemaddix4291]

Who is still watching in June 2020.😎🏁

[@BirdBath1]

Nicole Maddix, look at bird bath

[@ms.ellaneous6406]

Miss them snakes need to go, please!

[@kevincampbell7338]

Awesome!

[@BirdBath1]

Kevin Campbell, look at bird bath

[@howardmcclear5296]

Mek wi plant ganja instead of mining.

[@juliekerry5304]

Howard Mcclear NOW SOMEONE IS THINKING STRAIGHT BROTHER 🌈🦋💜💚

[@OLDTIMEANOINTEDGOSPELMUSIC]

Forests are threatened all over the world - In Canada they want to cut them down to build houses and in other places they want to cut timber or mine them. The only way to protect rain forests is to make them profitable - people see them as waste lands that can be developed so the threat will always be there. We can make them profitable by making them tourist friendly - Lots of tourist all over the world are interested in forests because they were born in concrete jungles. For is like heaven to them so they will pay big bucks to tour them. While coming from Jamaica in November I happened to sit by a gentleman who told me that he paid US$200 for he and his wife to go on a bird watching tour. Many people don't know that people are willing to pay that kind of money that's why they see the forests as bush. It begins with education and videos like this is a great start

[@anthonychung9601]

JAMAICANS FIGHT TO KEEP COCKPIT FREE FROM MINING,ORGANISE PROTESTS

[@juliettebennette9840]

They should have a zip line in the Cockpit area to show the beauty from above,looking down.

[@BirdBath1]

Juliette Bennette, look at bird bath

[@kelvinfelix174]

other wild meat looking good

[@tarkbey9261]

Now owned by the Chinese :)

[@boldbosstv5602]

It's not sold out www.nycaribnews.com/articles/pm-holness-on-cockpit-country-mining/

[@blackpassenger]

what? 40 million years ago? I thought jamaicans didnt believe in evolution.

[@ilikegreenthings6009]

That's the difference between science and fairy tales

[@jasoncummings7052]

They don't.

[@gmsjamaicasitdown8141]

@@ilikegreenthings6009 and the geological column is not ???? what a laugh

[@chachab9239]

blackpassenger ... seek and you’ll learn otherwise. Try it!

[@stephanlarsen8169]

If one believe in Jah one believe in creation. It has many names

[@fiery.mercaba]

The "millions of years" thing so takes away from the credibility of this presentation. From whence have you gotten this fantasy idea? For Creationists, yea, for Biblicists, we realize that the Earth is not even 7,000 years old.

[@leciabrown2611]

Love this video but the snakes can stay out I don't like snake at all just watching them now give me the creep,that's the only thing I don't like about this video. Love mi little piece a rock big up yourself mi little Jamaica.

[@happynezlifestyle8599]

Take the government to court?

[@fabiandouglas7135]

2023

[@kojomensah7474]

The miners will destroy the place because if so call progress they are destroying the country side and for what??

[@0000bling]

a who dem get fi read.....

[@elroygooden7348]

Leave the cockpit community alone don’t creat any disasters for the country if it’s money you want then it’s a natural tourist destination so much to gain from the place and don’t have to spend a cent open your eyes mr pm don’t let history judge you in the bad ways

[@actionjamaicaja2864]

No mining

[@BirdBath1]

ActionJamaica Ja, look at bird bath

[@earthrise6622]

An emphatic NO to bauxite minings. It would be a disaster for the area to end up like my home village in St Ann. It is a barren wasteland. Polluted and toxic. The workers are exploited. When they want on strike for better pay and conditions and government and the mining companies broke the strike by bringing in workers. The strikers were sacked. From then on permanent employment stopped. To keep workers in slave conditions and drive down wages even further workers are rotated every 2 days if you complain you simply do not get hired, I think that extractive industries are unconscionable and racist. Their nefarious actions affect all communities in the same way. In the village where I was born in Jamaica, the government and mining company talked villagers into selling their land and homes. They were given promises of a new village elsewhere with improved facilities, better houses than the ones they had before and good land so they could continue farming. The villagers sold and nothing happened for more than a decade. By the time the mining companies showed up, the money villages got for their property was long gone. Those who refused to sell; their land and property were compulsorily purchased. The new house and land turned out to be less than promised. The land was poor and stony so nothing could grow there. To survive, the farmers were forced to work in England and the USA. The villagers were simple farmers, they did know what mining meant. They did not know that they had signed away their future and the future of the land and all its inhabitants. All extractive industries behave in the same way. They exploit local workers. They abuse local communities and they abuse, rape and poison the environment. They don't care about the effect their activities have on local communities. Their responsibilities begin and end with the bottom line - shareholders. They don't have to live with the consequences of deforestation, loss of biodiversity, the poisoning of land, water and air.

[@GAZABABE12]

where in jamaica is this ????

[@juliettebennette9840]

Trelawny

[@GAZABABE12]

@@juliettebennette9840 ok thanks

[@BirdBath1]

Look at bird bath Jamaican birds I have

[@MrCoshane]

How about i give my honest opinion about the narrator

[@chachab9239]

Scorpionking .. what positive narration do you wish share?

[@shantallee2600]

Mi no know bout d snake part

[@chachab9239]

Shantal Lee ...😀🤣😅

[@pinkminajer5999]

10:30 LOOOOOOOOOL ! "Me were 'fraid"

[@maosung5219]

۱۴۰۲~۴~۲۴🌷🌼🌻

[@blackpassenger]

jamaica rose from the sea? I thought god made jamaica.

[@chaseevis4739]

Eat the snakes. All of them. That's what they're there for. They taste just like chicken. Put some jerk rub on them. Yum. 👮

[@chachab9239]

Chase Evis ... hmmmmm