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Forestry Department Opens New Training Facility
Kingston, July 19, 2010
 The Forestry Department, on Monday July 19, 2010, officially opened its new $12.8M Training Facility. The facility built by the Government with assistance from the Alcoa Foundation is geared at training its staff in Forestry and Customer Service standards. The Agency, which was designated an Executive Agency on May 1 this year, is embarking on a new operation style that is performance based to provide efficient and effective service...Read more
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Forestry Department collaborates with Corporate Jamaica
The Forestry Department continues to engage corporate Jamaica to promote the social importance of trees. In this its latest venture, the agency is partnering with the country’s largest indigenous bank, the National Commercial Bank (NCB), to plant trees in some primary schools across the island.
The partnership was formalised on June 4, 2010 to coincide with World Environment Day with tree planting exercises islandwide. Read more
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Forestry Department observes World Environment Day
 Scores of persons were exposed to the Forestry Department and its work on Friday, June 4, 2010 when the agency participated in an expo marking World Environment Day.
The Expo organised and staged by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) was held at Devon House in St. Andrew.
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Farmers in Cinchona and Westphalia get training
A training seminar targeting farmers in Cinchona and Westphalia to teach  them about aspects of agro forestry was recently staged at the Cinchona Park in the Blue and John Crow Mountains.
About 20 farmers attended the training, which focused on land husbandry and soil conservation. It was held on Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Read more
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Judge sentences illegal logger to tend trees in forest
Kingston, Jamaica, June 1, 2010:
Following up on her order for an illegal logger to replant trees, Resident Magistrate Georgianna Fraser has now sentenced him to take care of them.
Wayne Nelson, was sentenced to 240 hours of community service, which he is to spend taking care of the trees he replanted. See more on Nelson <<here>> |
 Judge orders man to replant trees in Forested Area
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A man, who pleaded guilty to cutting down trees in Mount Horeb, in rural St. Andrew was ordered to replant some trees when he appeared in the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday, May 10, 2010.
Wayne Nelson, the accused, who is from the Mount Horeb community, pleaded guilty to removing trees on a forest reserve without a permit....<<more>> |
Jamaica's Strategic Forest Management Plan - Final Draft |
The Forestry
Department is committed to our mission to manage, protect and conserve
the country’s forest resources, in accordance with national
environment policies, for the
benefit of present and future generations. The management of forests
on a sustainable
basis is essential to protect watersheds, conserve biodiversity, and
to maintain and
increase the economic benefits that forests provide. The Strategic
Forest Management
Plan 2009-2013 underscores the Department’s commitment, as it
articulates the current
state of our forest environment as well as sets targets by which our
performance can be measured...click
here
to learn more. |
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The
publication of the Manual of Dendrology - Jamaica
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The
Forestry Department takes great pleasure in announcing the release
of its landmark publication, Manual of Dendrology - Jamaica.
The sole purpose of the dendrology manual is to provide an easy-to-use
guide to native trees of Jamaica...click here
to know more. |
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Private Planting Programme Fall 2009 |
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Although the Private Planting Programme is active all year, October is a particularly
busy time for seedling distribution as farmers and landowners take
advantage of the "big" rainy season to get their timber
tree seedlings planted and established before the onset of the dry
season in December/January. more>> |
Forest Cover and Deforestation in Jamaica |
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A paper written by Forestry Department staff and published in the December
2003 issue of International Forestry Review re-examines the issue
of forest cover loss in Jamaica by analysing pre-1990 land use data
together with a detailed study of 1989 and 1998 LANDSAT TM imagery
of the island. The analysis clearly reveals there were fundamental
errors in the data used during the 1990s which characterised Jamaica
as having one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. Read
the full article here >> JA
Forest Cover Change |
Maps & GIS Data Service |
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Data
on Jamaica's forest cover, landuse and geography are available on
maps published using the ArcXML protocol employed by ESRI's ArcIMS
software. A copy of the 1998 Landuse/Cover of Jamaica is now available
for download. Click here for more on how to download. |
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