Safari park at Ridiyagama
National Zoological Department has taken steps to set up a safari
park at Ridiyagama, Hambantota.
This proposed park will be constructed in a 500 acre landscape with
the objective of housing animals who live on fauna and flora. There will
also be a reptile park. Animals, birds and reptiles of foreign origin
will be a special feature in this park.
The construction work on this project was inaugurated recently and
the total expenditure would be in the region of Rs. 1.5 billion. The
park will be hopefully open to the public by the end of 2010, Director
of the NZD, Duminda Jayaratne said. |