JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue of ...

A 2020 government decree that transferred administrative control of nonprotected forests in Sri Lanka to local governments has been formally revoked by the country’s new government. The move ...

Over recent decades, large areas of forest have been cleared for agricultural development ... To address this critical issue, ...

Uva Pathanbima, which includes the Nilgala Forest, one of the four unique ecological zones native to Sri Lanka, has yet to be ...

While Sri Lanka allows electric fences to keep the animals ... that wander out of protected areas back in, because shrinking forests cannot support too many elephants. Prithviraj Fernando was ...

Joseph Anton, a Catholic, says his life's mission is to save mangroves in the nation’s largest saline coastal peat bog ...

In most cases, they die electrocuted, blown up or shot at in an increasingly difficult relationship with humans. A 2020 ...

Sri Lanka is likely to miss its 2023 target of 2.3 million tourist arrivals despite a pick up in the numbers in the current ...