Abstract
Official Journal of the Institute of Environmental Professionals Sri Lanka. Full text articles available. The journal publishes original research and review articles on environmental studies relevant to Sri Lanka and other tropical regions. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on broad categories of environmental science.
Highlights
Rapid rate of deforestation and forest degradation have become critical environmental problems in Sri Lanka over the past few decades (MoE, 2003)
Forest-based ecotourism is a non-land based model of sustainable forest management, which is built upon recreation services provided by the forests (Yong, 1995; Lindberg et al, 1997)
Capitalizing on the existing forest resources, Sri Lanka has been carrying out nature tourism, both in the areas held by the FD and the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC), for decades
Summary
Rapid rate of deforestation and forest degradation have become critical environmental problems in Sri Lanka over the past few decades (MoE, 2003) It shows that the existing „command and control‟ approach of forest management in Sri Lanka, has not been effective in ensuring sustainability of natural forests. The objectives of the study are, to identify main problems and issues that demand policy level interventions in developing forest-based ecotourism in Sri Lanka, to identify the existing management approaches to forest-based ecotourism, followed by a review of strengths and weaknesses of each approach to provide key policy implications and recommendations in promoting ecotourism as a sustainable tool for forest conservation in Sri Lanka. The seventh section provides key policy implications and recommendations for development of ecotourism as a sustainable tool for forest management
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