Catch & Release - GOJ/GEF/IDB Yallahs Hope Project July - September 2017 | Page 12

138 farmers in the St. Andrew communities of Content Gap, Westphalia and the St. Thomas communities of Penlyne Castle, Windsor Forest and Windsor Castle have been trained in preventive measures and early management of forest fires.

In 2015, the communities were severely shaken after fires wiped out large acres of coffee, banana, pineapple and vegetables and left wide scale destruction to livestock, property and forests.