UNDP to Help Protect Elephants in Sri Lanka
8/20/99
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Title: UNDP to Help Protect Elephants in Sri Lanka
Source: XINHUA
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: August 20, 1999
UNITED NATIONS (Aug. 20) XINHUA - The United Nations Development
Program (UNDP) announced Friday that it will give 4 million U.S.
dollars to Sri Lanka to help preserve its endangered wildlife and
protect elephants from extinction.
Six protected area management plans which cover Sri Lanka's most
bio-diverse ecosystems, have been set up under the project, the UNDP
said in its latest Weekly News.
Intensified demand for land has placed unprecedented stress on Sri
Lanka's native elephants, which are being pushed into shrinking
forest pockets that are unable to sustain them, according to the UNDP
which will carry out the project in cooperation with another U.N.
agency, the Global Environment Facility.