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Save Jamaica's Pellew Island

Target:

Minister of Health and the Environment

Sponsored by:

The Jamaica Environmental Advocacy Network

Also known as Monkey Island, Pellew Island is one of Jamaica%u2019s small, near-shore islands. Located just off the San San coast near Port Antonio, Pellew Island is an important part of Jamaica%u2019s natural heritage and an iconic image of our northeastern coast. Originally part of Cold Harbour Estates, it was purchased in 1953 by Baron Heinrich Thyssen as a Valentine%u2019s gift for his fiancée, and has been privately owned ever since.

The island sits at one end of a coral reef, which protects the San San Bay. It is surrounded by healthy sea grass beds and wonderful swimming areas. Jamaicans and visitors alike visit the island by boat, laze on the small beach, snorkel at the nearby reef and generally enjoy the gorgeous setting.

The current owner plans to construct four villas on the island. This is likely to result in significant environmental impact, both during the construction phase and afterwards, as well as the loss of access to the beach.

If you are concerned about this development, which will irretrievably alter one of Jamaica%u2019s most beautiful views, as well as pose risks to the marine environment, please sign our %u201CSave Pellew Island%u201D petition, asking the Minister of Health and the Environment to use Jamaican law to ensure Pellew Island remains in its natural state

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# 1,989:

2:39 am PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, Florida
The scars of development are rapidly covering the country. The North Coast Highway blasting away the hillsides of Trelawny, the top of Long Mountain chopped off in Kingston. The light swaths of forest cut down where the bauxite is carried to port. Unless certain area are set aside and protected for future generations, the Jamaicans of the future will be living in a concrete jungle created by us. Pelew Island is featured on many of JTB's posters designed to attract tourists to the Island. The way we are destroying the beauty of our country, soon the JTB will run out of places to put on their posters.

# 1,988:

1:36 am PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, France
Please respect the island's pristine condition and do not allow construction on Pellew Island. Thank you.

# 1,987:

5:08 am PDT, May 8, Robin Farquharson, Jamaica
The island should never be "developed", but preserved in its natural state for future generations.

# 1,986:

7:11 am PDT, May 7, Name not displayed, New Jersey
Why is it that Jamaica is so short-sighted? We ruin our natural beauty, destroy our aquifers and natural resources in the name of "development", and who really benefits? Not Jamaicans, who are in dire economic straits. Eventually the tourists who came for the raw beauty of the place will go some other place; a place which hasn't yet turned into a concrete jungle where tourists are harrassed by vendors, hustlers and others who have become dependent on tourist dollars now that working the land is no longer an option. Pellew Island should be left alone.

# 1,985:

9:20 am PDT, May 6, Jennifer Bouchard, Canada

# 1,984:

1:33 pm PDT, May 1, Glen Laman, Georgia

# 1,983:

2:33 pm PDT, Apr 29, Monique Johnson, Jamaica

# 1,982:

12:35 pm PDT, Apr 29, Mary Veira, Jamaica
We need to preserve some of our beautiful island for future generations.

# 1,981:

10:02 am PDT, Apr 29, Jo Angell, United Kingdom
I lived in Jamaica for many years and, having family there, visit from time to time and I think it is absolutely essential to preserve areas of beauty and of scientific importance. I hope that coral reefs are considered to be important.

# 1,980:

8:53 am PDT, Apr 29, Lisa Lindeberg, Minnesota
I have visited Port Antonio and Pellew Island on four seperate occasions since 1995, and would hate not to visit upon my next return to Port Antonio. I was just there two month ago, and am appauled that it is being advertised that a villa is completed already, as this is not true. Please think of the rest of the world when attempting to destroy this piece of paradise.

# 1,979:

3:00 pm PDT, Apr 28, Stephen Vasciannie, Jamaica

# 1,978:

8:57 pm PDT, Apr 27, Maria Edwards, Jamaica

# 1,977:

2:41 pm PDT, Apr 27, Name not displayed, Jamaica

# 1,976:

4:45 pm PDT, Apr 26, Cheryl Strachan, Jamaica
It really saddens many Jamaicans to see the devestating effects construction has had on Jamaica's environment. I am totally against the development of Pellew sland and urge the authorities to do whatever is necessary to preserve this natural habitat. Pellew Island MUST remain in its natural state.

# 1,975:

1:36 pm PDT, Apr 25, Ricco Rosseau, Aruba
preserve jah's land

# 1,974:

6:42 am PDT, Apr 25, Denise Rau, Florida
Are we going to take every piece of available land just to build one more villa for the rich and famous? How many more playgrounds do they need?

# 1,973:

6:19 am PDT, Apr 25, David J. Strachan, Florida

# 1,972:

4:26 pm PDT, Apr 24, Rene Samuda, Canada

# 1,971:

2:43 pm PDT, Apr 24, Michael Roper, Florida

# 1,970:

1:42 pm PDT, Apr 24, Jonathan Chambers, United Kingdom
Save it..

# 1,969:

1:24 am PDT, Apr 24, Karen Cousins, United Kingdom
This natural beauty is what attracts visitors to the area...both local(jamaicans) and tourists... The last thing we need is more concrete jungles. Leave the island as it is. Future generations need to experience the wonder and beauty that it provides....Our children need to benifit from first hand knowledge, not seeing in photos, books and hearing the words.... this is what it looked like back in the day! Can we not leave things alone......If you keep going this way then children and future generations will be stuck infront of their TV's and computer...overweight and depressed, is that the world we want our kids to live in.........detached from nature???????

# 1,968:

2:03 pm PDT, Apr 23, Name not displayed, Jamaica
Jamaica is being prostituted by developers, it's beauty is disappearing into the cement.

# 1,967:

12:48 pm PDT, Apr 23, Allea Mahmood, Jamaica

# 1,966:

12:07 pm PDT, Apr 23, Name not displayed, Jamaica

# 1,965:

11:10 am PDT, Apr 23, Jacqueline Nasralla, Jamaica
It's not important - it's imperative...

# 1,964:

7:58 pm PDT, Apr 22, Julian Radlein, Canada
I understand the economics of land "development" may seem tantilizing, but please consider for a moment the ramifications of your decision. By increasing traffic to the island, you will certainly destroy the fragile ecosystem of the reef, and the island. In essence, you will destroy that which makes it appealing as an island getaway. Do what is right, instead of what's expedient.

# 1,963:

4:39 pm PDT, Apr 22, Lincoln Webber, Jamaica
I was born there.

# 1,962:

4:17 pm PDT, Apr 22, Jessica Fearon, Georgia

# 1,961:

3:22 pm PDT, Apr 22, Name not displayed, Jamaica
Preserve our children's heritage!

# 1,960:

1:56 pm PDT, Apr 22, Lloyd Brown, Georgia
Portland is dear and special to my heart, anything to protect its natural beauty.

# 1,959:

8:28 pm PDT, Apr 21, Jody Chen, Jamaica
I was born in Port Antonio and I've always loved the fact that the Portland has remained relatively unspoiled. Developing Pellew Island would be the signal that this may no longer be the case.

# 1,958:

9:30 am PDT, Apr 21, Ricco Rosseau, Jamaica

# 1,957:

7:44 am PDT, Apr 21, Danielle Hanson, Florida

# 1,956:

7:41 am PDT, Apr 21, Ross Bourne, Germany
hell noooooooooooooooo

# 1,955:

5:25 am PDT, Apr 21, Monica Chen, Jamaica
I was born and grew up in Port Antonio and have lasting memories of hiking/biking to San San with a party of say 20 kids accompanied by a Teacher to have a picnic on the beach facing Pellew Island. We did this nearly every summer. Please, please keep this going for the future generation.

# 1,954:

6:24 pm PDT, Apr 20, Erick Lommatzsch, Florida

# 1,953:

3:29 pm PDT, Apr 20, Chelsea Wallace, Jamaica

# 1,952:

2:07 pm PDT, Apr 20, Melanie Weston, New York
i have been going to san san beach and the port antonio area ever since i was a child and have very fond memories of swimming out to pellew island. I like Port Antonio precisely because it is not overdeveloped and the beauty of the true jamaica remains intact. Developing the island would destroy the flora and fauna of the island.

# 1,951:

8:51 am PDT, Apr 20, Debi Adam, North Carolina

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