Teachers guide students in understanding the importance of local wetlands. Children clean up beaches and become junior rangers. Farmers minimize their use on chemical. More citizen are being volunteer NRCA Game Wardens. Land developers avoid cutting down trees along gullies to minimize erosion.
Consumers avoid buying products which have excessive packaging.
This is the path to environmentally sustainable development. The 1992 report on the environment identified several factors which reduce Jamaica's ability to achieve sustainable development. There are institutional constraints, inadequate legislation, lack of planning, little public awareness, illiteracy and poverty. All work to impede progress. Other cultural constraints, such as the erosion of values that uphold nature, and high consumption lifestyles, are major obstacles.