KALUBHAR ECO-TOURISM ISLAND

Ecotourism is about uniting conservation, communities, and sustainable travel.

Rationale: Kalubhar is platform for flora –fauna, coral reefs and has second largest mangrove area cover of 9.57 sq.km in Marine National Park & Sanctuary.

• Reflective: Using past experience to inform future decisions

• Resourceful: Recognizing alternative ways to use resources

• Robust: well conceived, constructed and managed systems

• Redundant: spare capacity purposively created to accommodate disruption

• Flexible: Willingness and ability to adopt alternative strategies in response to changing circumstances

• Inclusive: prioritize broad consultation to create a sense of shared ownership in decision making

• Integrated: bring together a range of distinct systems and institutions

• Minimize physical, social, behavioural, and psychological impacts.

• Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect.

• Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts.

• Provide direct financial benefits for conservation.

• Generate financial benefits for both local people and private industry.

• Deliver memorable interpretative experiences to visitors that help raise sensitivity to host countries’ political, environmental, and social climates.

• Design, construct and operate low-impact facilities.

• Recognize the rights and spiritual beliefs of the Indigenous People in the local community and work in partnership with them to create empowerment.

Conceptual Zoning

The conceptual zoning is done based on the Coastal Regulation Zone and URDPFI guidelines