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Sri Lanka's traditional snake handlers face decline amid conservation shifts
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Sri Lanka is home to a traditional community of snake handlers whose livelihoods have been passed down through generations. That way of life is now under pressure as shifting ecological laws and modern conservation attitudes restrict their practices. Practitioners say they are caught between preserving cultural heritage and complying with wildlife protection rules, and observers are debating how such traditions can survive alongside conservation.
Why now: Tension between traditional cultural livelihoods and new conservation rules has drawn fresh attention to this community's uncertain future.
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