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Ecotourism: Major ComponentsEcotourism: Major Components

1. Natural resource base:

Topography (adventure tourism )

Biodiversity (endemics, threatened spp., plant - animal

interactions) Culture (village life, traditions, indigenous knowledge)

2. Learning experience for the visitor and visitor facilities

(communication ability, knowledge merchants)

3. Executed by small locally owned enterprise.

4. Low consumption of non renewable resources.

5. Sustain/uplift/benefit the livelihood of local people

6. Local participation, ownership, business opportunitiesfor local people.


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Local People

Reserve boundaryLowland rain for.Old encroachmentsSub montane for.TeaMiscellaneous cropsRubberPaddyHomesteads

Other plantationsRock outcropsRiverSparse & open veget.

Pinus plantations

LowlandLowlandRFRF

MontaneMontaneRFRF

OldOldEncroachmentsEncroachments

PinePinePlantationsPlantations

TeaTeaPlantationsPlantations

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VILLAGE LIFE Local People

Population: ~ 26,000 people, in ~ 6,500 families

Village size: Between 40 to 430 households in 38 villagesNo. of persons per family: Little over 5.

179 plant species (33 % endemic)used for their subsistence & market economy.


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Local People

Housing:Then:

Wattle & daub; raw materialobtained from the forest and envt.

Leaves for roofingBeru (Agrostistachys intramarginalis),

Bata (Ochlandra stridula),Coconut (Cocos nucifera) andPaddy or other suitable grass straw

Now: Permanent, well constructed.


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Local People

Village homes

in 2005

Solar

panels

TV

VCDetc.

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Village life closely intervowen withCaryota urensLocal People

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Local People

Sweet toddy, toddy, treacle andjaggary: some products from the

Fish Tail Palm:

HOW IT ALL BEGINS

the preparation is a

home industry: all members playcomplementary roles

Local People


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Local People

THE WOMENS ROLE

Concentration of the sap Setting the concentrate

in coconut shells

Wrapping in dried banana leaves

M di i l i C i i f t t Local People


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Medicinal vine Coscinium fenestratum:

woody stems widely collected

Local People

Local People


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Local People

OTHER PRODUCTS GATHERED FROM THE FORE

Local People


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Local People

Rattans:

Calamus ovoideus

Calamus thwaitesii

Calamus zeylanicus

Local People


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Local People

Main occupation

In the past: Uplands - Shifting cultivation

Low lying areas - Paddy

Assisting Forest Dept. Assisting in research Manage small boutiques Educated leave the villages

At present: Home garden tea Cinnamon, smaller scale.

Low lying areas - Paddymostly in the south. Northpaddy not favoured due towild boar/sambhur damage

Local People


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After early 1980s

Before 1970s

At Present

Before 1970s

Local People


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GEF/UNDP funded SW Rainforest Conserv. Project of the FDDeveloped conservation awareness programmes among villagers

36 youth societies, Sinharaja Sumithuro or Friends of Sinhara36 youth societies, Sinharaja Sumithuro or Friends of Sinharajajaformed in 1998,

These CBOs participate in Sinharaja conservation activities.

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Distribution of:

Mobile sheds

Hume pipes for road construction to

communities in Galle district and

Ratnapura district

S-lon pipes for drinking water schemes

Knap sack sprayers: Galle district

Fuel wood saving improved stoves

Bee boxes

200019991998Material Assistance to CBOs

Local PeopleCommunity support


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Community support

Up grading educational facilities in rural schools.

Organizing medical health camps. Improving village roads.

Health camp for villages in the

northwestern side of Sinharaja

Medical consultant

examines a villagerVillagers cueing up to be examined

Local PeopleCommunity support


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Community support

Community Trust Fund Established as a Pilot Project in

Southern SinharajaSeed money from FD: Soft loans (13% interest rates)

CBOs trained to:Operate fund and keep accounts

Write loan applications, fill legally binding promisory notes

Develop entrepreneurial skills(traditional medicine clinic;household linen, grocery and confectionary sales outlets;tea, manioc, banana, pepper cultivations ; carpentry shop;radio, electrical equipment and cycle repair shops;poultry farm and sales outlet; establish tea nurseries;manufacture cement blocks)

Training by Tourist Board, Tea Small Holdings Authority, ExportCrops Development Authority, Dept. of Agric. Export Crops.

ChallengesSuccessesComponents


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Continuity needs to beensured.

Facilities needed on othersides of the reserve.

Full potential yet to berealized

Achieved internl levels &continuing.

Largely on the NW side

Excellent out doorlaboratory

Research

Education

More protection / policingrequired; visitor &research increase helpsprotection

Yet to be embarked on.Yet to be embarked on.

Incentives urgentlyIncentives urgently

required for theirrequired for theirpreservationpreservation

Scient. value high &unique due to highendemism.

[No implemented][No implemented]

[Declined considerably][Declined considerably]

1. Resource base:

Biodiversity

AdventureAdventuretrekking.trekking.

Culture:Culture:village life,village life,

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More required.

More required.

More required.

Basic

Basic

Limited, good.

2. Accommodation :

Forest Dept.Local Entrep.

Prof. tour

companiesGarbage disposal

facility required.

Maintenance: room for

improvement.Monitg & control reqd.

To some extent. Polytheneprohibited.

[Pollution by tea agrochem.]

Envt. friendlymanagement

Much more required.

Sign posting needimprovement.

Some available.Educationmaterial

Many more need to betrained for HEET

Few and of variable quality.

Few HEET interpreters.

Excellent training site forHEET interpreters

No. and qualityof guides




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Empowerment of

conservationresponsibilitiesyet to come.

To some extent.

Conserv. awarenessmuch improved.

Maintenance of forestroads, buildings.

Ticket checking.

Manning educn centre.

6. Co-management of

reserve withvillagers

Buffer zonemanagement &local livelihoodsneed integration.

Value addition toforest products.

Improved considerably5. Uplifting localslivelihoods

Much more needed.Additional sites

for HEET need tobe identified &developed.

Only just beginning.

To some extent.Hydropower, solarenergy.

3/4. Small entreprises;

Low use of nonrenewableresources


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