Land for jumbos

Raja Waidyasekera Tissamaharama special corr.

A three year plan will be implemented in Hambantota district to minimize human-elephant conflict.

The Department of wildlife will implement the project till 2011. Rs. 527 million has been allocated for the project.

Under the plan mooted by the Department of Wildlife the existing electric fence in extent of 1,336 kilo meters will be maintained, wild elephants that roam about in villages will be rehabilitated. Plots of land will be allocated for elephants.

In addition elephant drives will be conducted while twenty one reservoirs will be set up and a grazing land in extent of 770 hectares will be set up to provide fodder.