Jamaica's Most Environmentally Friendly Hotel

In our efforts to ensure that Hotel Mocking Bird Hill is the leading environmentally friendly hotel in Jamaica, we have teamed up with STI (Sustainable Travel International) and are working towards becoming a carbon neutral eco-boutique hotel by offsetting our carbon emissions and enabling our guests to offset the carbon emissions produced by their flights to Jamaica.

STI has an accredited carbon offsetting programme: My Climate. STI has recently calculated the hotel’s emissions and established that Hotel Mocking Bird Hill produces 68.78 VERs (verified emission reductions, ton of CO2 equivalent) annually. We will be making a financial contribution to My Climate towards offsetting these emissions.

It is also important for us to contribute to a Jamaican project which seeks to preserve and improve the Jamaican environment. We are partnering with the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust (JCDT), a Jamaican NGO that has an extensive reforestation programme using mainly native Jamaican forest trees, particularly those that are fast growing and have little value for lumber but which are excellent for biodiversity - these include species like Alchornea latifolia - Dovewood, Clethra occidentalis - Soapwood, Hibiscus elatus - Blue Mahoe and Hernandia catalpifolia - Water Mahoe (the tree the endangered Giant Swallowtail Butterfly lays its eggs on and the only plant the caterpillars will eat). The JCDT grows most of the seedlings in their nursery at Holywell as well as in some community nurseries. In areas closer to communities fruit trees are also planted. The JCDT plants in areas that have been identified (using satellite imagery and ground-truthing) as high priority areas for rehabilitation.