Tune In! A New Online Talk Show on Goat Islands Tonight!

Tune in, listen, learn and share your thoughts with the hosts of the first ever live online show on the Portland Bight Protected Area/Goat Islands. This would be at 7:00 p.m. Jamaica time this evening.

“Our first live online radio show will begin today on Blog Talk Radio.
Sunday May 11, 2014 @ 5pm PST, 7pm CST, 8pm EST.
Call in to speak with the host (914) 338-1983
We encourage listener participation & hope you can join us.
The first show will be covering the time line of when & how the Portland Bight Protected Area/Goat Islands became a consideration for the port development.”

Go to this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/no2portgoatislandsjam/2014/05/12/how-why-development-of-the-portland-bight-protected-area-jamaica

If you would like to learn more about the proposed development (and proposed coal-fired power plant) by China Harbour Engineering Company in this beautiful area of untouched wetlands and fish sanctuary, go to savegoatislands.org. Also, please sign and share the online petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/prime-minister-portia-simpson-miller-et-al-no-trans-shipping-port-portland-bight-protected-area-jamaica. Read the comments on that page, and all the comments and articles on the Facebook page No! to Port on Goat Island, Jamaica.

Please also support the Jamaica Environment Trust in its pioneering work, as it continues the fight against the development in this particular area. Find them on Facebook and at http://www.jamentrust.org. Watch the wonderful long and short PSAs “Don’t Sell Out Jamaica.” Join JET, donate, support!

This is our heritage, our birthright. Our island, Jamaica. Thank you.

Little Goat Island. (My photo)

Portland Bight, in southern Jamaica, was designated a Wetland of International Importance on World Wetland Day, February 2, 2006. The Jamaican Government is now seriously considering a demand from Chinese investors to build a transshipment port in the area, which is protected by law and includes recently established fish sanctuaries. (Photo: Gleaner)

A view across part of the Portland Bight Protected Area. (Photo: Ted Lee Eubanks)

Magnificent Frigate Birds in Portland Bight, southern Jamaica, which was designated a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar convention seven years ago. (Photo: Gleaner)

Hawksbill Sea Turtle nesting beach at Manatee Bay. (Photo: Mike Fouraker)

Boating around Great Goat Island, September 2013. (My photo)

Boating around Little Goat Island, September 2013. (My photo)

The western bay at Little Goat Island is rich with seagrass. (Photo: Kirsty Swinnerton)

Young Jamaican iguanas are raised in a facility in Kingston to see them through the most vulnerable months before being released back into the wild – a process known as “head starting”. (Photo: Robin Moore for National Geographic)

The Portland Bight Protected Area contains the largest intact mangrove forest in Jamaica. (Photo: Robin Moore, Fellow at the International League for Conservation Photographers, for National Geographic)