Incentivising Community Engagement Through Volunteer Ecotourism

Seagrass • Narrow reef flat dominated by seagrass beds (±2,200 hectares) in shallow water at the north coast, south cost unknown • Limited presence in a mixed habitat containing hard coral and bare areas (±1,250 ha) • Seagrass dominated habitat cover averages 43% -100% • Densest seagrass beds at a depth of > 1 m • Seven genera Halodule, Halophila, Enhalus, Cymodocea, Syringodium, Thalassia, and Thalassodendron 20 21 October 2015 Tamascik et al., 1997; Wagey & Arifin, 2008; Boggs et al., 2009 Colombo, Sri Lanka 9

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