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New measures to protect sea-turtle

by Florence Wickramage

The Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) has introduced an alternate tourism programme to wean away villagers in Kosgoda who are engaged themselves in sea-turtle egg gathering for a livelihood.

Project Leader and Committee Chairman of TCP Thushan Kapurusinghe told the Daily News that the new programme conducted with the collaboration of the Sri Lanka Tourist Board aims to make community members depend on tourism rather than on collection of turtle eggs laid on the beach.

Under this programme selected villagers were trained as Nature-Guides who would guide tourists visiting the Kosgoda beach to see the sea-turtle nestings. The guides have been issued with a government certified site guide licence by the Tourist Board. Part of the TCP's programme includes free Spoken English classes and the promotion of tourism in the area.

Kapurusinghe said that through this programme the youth would voluntarily assist the TCP in its turtle conservation work whilst being engaged in gainful employment.

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