Published on : Friday, June 7, 2019
At the PATA InSPIRE Awards 2015, Cinnamon even grabbed the title of Best Wildlife and Marine Tourism Service Provider. As one of the important hospitality chains in Sri Lanka, Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts is revered to display Sri Lanka’s natural world as a sustainable tourism product.
Project Leopard
A continuing project in its fifth year of operation, Project Leopard in Yala is managed and deployed by Cinnamon Nature Trails naturalists at Cinnamon WildYala.
It has double objectives of supporting cattle farmer’s livelihoods and protecting the leopard population living in and outside the boundary of the parks.
In the area, they have distributed around 50 steel pens to cattle farmers, helping them to defend their cattles from leopards – an attempt that won the distinguished Davis Award for Peace last year at the University of Clark, USA.
This project is First Trap camera image – spotted at the entry way of Cinnamon Wild Yala supervised and deployed by the passionate Nature Trails naturalists, housed within the resort.
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