Wildlife Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has ordered an investigation over an incident of persons clearing a section belonging to the Yala Wildlife park over the past few days.
A Ministry official said that two teams from the Forest Conservation Department and the Wildlife Department have been sent from Colombo today morning to investigate and repot.
A section of the forest in the Gal-Ara area had been cleared in the past five days using heavy machinery.
Environmental groups said that the area officials had been informed, but they did not take action.
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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