A petition against mining in a section of the Dry Harbour Mountains in St Ann has failed to get the 15,000 signatures it needed to prompt an official response from Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
The petition was created on November 17, and up to Sunday of this week, when it closed, it had received only 5,548 signatures.
The petition was launched on the Office of the Prime Minister's (OPM) website by environmentalists in response to the Government's decision to grant a mining licence to Jamaica World LLC to carry out mining activities in the ecologically-sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains.
The mountains are home to many endangered and endemic species.