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Colombo (News 1st); The Proposed Wild Elephant Management Reserve in Hambantota will be included in the government gazette in the near future, said Minister Namal Rajapaksa on Tuesday (19).
The minister was commenting on the satyagraha campaign launched by locals from Walsapugala, Hambantota demanding the Proposed Wild Elephant Management Reserve in Hambantota, be included in the government gazette.
The necessary provisions were made in 2012 to gazette to The Proposed Wild Elephant Management Reserve in Hambantota, however, over the past 05 years, those plans did not realize, said the Minister.
Recently, Minister of Wildlife & Forest Conservation C. B. Rathnayake tabled a Cabinet Memorandum on the matter, said Rajapaksa adding a period of one month was given for the Mahaweli Authority to revert with their recommendations on the Proposed Wild Elephant Management Reserve in Hambantota.