Environmental Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan announced that the government is taking proactive measures to ensure that limiting tourism on Saint Martin’s Island does not negatively affect local livelihoods. Efforts are underway to create alternative employment while preserving and restoring the island’s biodiversity. A working group, led by the Director General of the Department of Environment, has been formed with representatives from agriculture, fisheries, tourism, women and children’s affairs, the forest department, local administration, BRAC, and Coast Foundation. Proposed initiatives include sustainable fishing gear, branding of dried fish, cultivation of seaweed, mushrooms, and vegetables, livestock farming, content creation, blogging, and photography training. Women will receive training in sewing, crafting traditional quilts, souvenir production, and rope-making from coconut husks. Plans also include educational support, tree planting, waste management, restaurant job training, and grooming local youths to become professional tour guides.