NZD to build Safari park at Ridiyagama

Colombo: National Zoological Department (NZD) has taken steps to set up a safari park at Ridiyagama, Hambantota.

This proposed park will be constructed in a 500 acre landscape with the objective of housing animals who live on fauna and flora. There will also be a reptile park. Animals, birds and reptiles of foreign origin will be a special feature in this park.

The construction work on this project was inaugurated recently and the total expenditure would be in the region of Rs. 1.5 billion. The park will be hopefully open to the public by the end of 2010, Director of the NZD, Duminda Jayaratne said.