Funding for the tour guides training program was provided by the Royal Netherlands Embassy. These tours are scheduled by the agency and led by experienced locals whom have been trained and certified in First Aid and CPR techniques by Government agencies. No where looks like it…No where feels like it… No Place on earth.įor you my friends, who just can’t wait to experience this unexplored, unexploited gem of a natural reserve, The STEA has now taken on the responsibility of marketing and managing hiking, caving and heritage tours of the area. To effectively carry out this mission, the STEA is supported by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) and Canada Green Fund that involves training of farmers in vegetative soil conservation.
The harvesting of lumber, mining, hunting and trapping of wildlife is also under the microscope. A mission that includes initiating sustainable environmental programs, which look at the alternatives to the destructive practice of burning charcoal. With a small staff of 12, it functions as a very adept and involved agency following its mission clearly and sharply. This was out of a micro-community initiative to stimulate interests and awareness for the ecological benefits/hazards that are impacting the area while ensuring that it was recognised as a protected wild reserve. Since 1996, the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) headquartered in Albert Town on the eastern boundary of Trelawny was established.
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Later liberated slaves settled in the area, establishing some of Jamaica’s first free villages. The Maroons would continue to live and traverse this area for much of the British rule. The Maroons would however to the surprise of their bounty hunters, use secret trails of the caves to appear and disappear at will, thwarting the English man hunt into disarray. The south-east corridor of the Cockpit Country is often called “Look Behind”, this we are told is where the British “red coat” soldiers would ride their horses in pairs combing the vines and shrubs in pursuit of Maroons. The history of the Cockpit Country is decorated with the life and times of the Taino Indians and later the runaway slave “Maroons”, who were able to use the caves and the rugged terrain to aid their security concerns, gaining tactical advantage as they fought the British tyrants in the 18th century.
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