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Thoughtless tourism damaging ecosystems, natural habitats

Lack of proper guidelines has led to unplanned construction of structures in tourist sites and thoughtless commercial tourism, causing massive damages to ecosystem and natural habitat of wildlife and marine life in forests, sea and plain as well as on hills, conservationists warn. Tourism business has proliferated in recent years taking a growing number of travellers from home and abroad to major tourist attractions and exploring new spots, but operators care little about protecting the ecosystem of particular sites, they point out.