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Rekawa is a small,
low-income fishing village on the south coast of Sri
Lanka. Rakawa Lagoon & Turtle Conservation Project
Rakawa is a seaside rural community engaged in fisheries
and agriculture. Its long sandy beach and mangrove
skirted lagoon gives it a rustic beauty. There is high
local biodiversity as, in addition to mangrove forest,
the local vegetation consists of scrub jungle, medicinal
plants, and fruit trees. Also a wide variety of
wildlife, including mammals, reptiles, 150 resident and
migratory bird species, and many arthropods and aquatic
creatures can be seen here.
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Millions of years before
man colonized Sri Lanka, sea turtles were coming to the
undisturbed beaches of this Island to lay their eggs.
The beach near Rakawa is one of Sri Lanka’s most
important marine turtle nesting sites where five of the
world's seven species of marine turtle come ashore to
nest throughout the year. All five species of turtles
that nest in Sri Lanka are either endangered or
critically endangered. Amongst them is the Leatherback
turtle, the largest of all the sea turtles, which can
grow up to 3 meters in length and weighs up to 600 kg.
It is at Rakawa beach that the Turtle Conservation
Project (TCP) has established an “in situ” nest
protection and research programme, allowing the
protection of nests where they are laid by the female
turtle and for the hatchlings to scramble down to the
ocean immediately after emergence from the nest. The
project at Rakawa is the first of its kind in Sri Lanka.
It incorporates the local
community in its efforts to conserve turtles in their
natural habitat, employing as nest protectors those who
were formerly dependent on the illegal collection of
turtle eggs. Turtles are most likely to come ashore
under the cover of darkness, and you are invited to join
the people at the Turtle Conservation Project during
their night watch. They can explain to you the
importance and practices of turtle conservation after
which you can join the night watch in anticipation of
that magical moment when a turtle comes ashore and lays
her eggs.
