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The Sundarbans Tiger Reserve Management and the WWF India West Bengal State
Office has taken special steps to find out ways and means for sustainable
development of the village of Bali with the help of these dynamic young men.
Help Tourism, an organization working for development of Community Tourism
that supports the process of conservation has also joined hands. A
demonstration project - Sundarbans Jungle Camp – a low cost tourism
infrastructure involving local people will be developed to be replicated by
other villagers. This will turn Bali into a tourist destination. The model
will gradually be picked up by the other villages, thus supporting a large
tourist inflow to the world’s largest mangrove forest.
The effort is not just to develop a tourism destination but to allow
villagers an alternative source of income so that intrusion into the forest
declines. It will have a direct impact on the forest as well as local
villagers will turn protectors rather than poach. Visitors to this
destination will have the opportunity to experience this unique forest with
its rich diversity of life. This will also help preserve local culture.
Here villagers will be the owners who will manage their property.
We want you to be a supporting member of this demonstration project -
Sundarbans Jungle Camp. The management of Sundarbans Tiger Reserve has
confirmed to give permission from the adjoining Bidya Range office to set up a
jetty, a sweet water source. A manual boat will also be provided to venture
into creeks to see wildlife.
As a member, you will have access to all these services with free
accommodation in a double bedded room for five days a year, for a period of
10years. You will also have the facility to avail an attractive discount of
twenty percent on accommodation at all the other locally developed tourism
infrastructure in the following units:
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Rishyap Tourist Centre, Village Rishyap, P.O.: Lava, Kalimpong Division, Dist:Darjeeling, West Bengal
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The Tinchulay Initiative, Village Tinchulay, P.O.: Takdah, Dist: Darjeeling, West Bengal.
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Garumara Jungle Camp ……….
This facility will also be extended to all other tourism destinations developed and promoted by Help Tourism for the cause of development of communities through tourism.
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