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 ...
COLOMBO — Environmental activists in Sri Lanka are celebrating the end of a 2020 decree that left the island’s nonprotected forests more vulnerable to agriculture and development projects.
In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru ...
Uva Pathanbima, which includes the Nilgala Forest, one of the four unique ecological zones native to Sri Lanka, has yet to be ...
Over recent decades, large areas of forest have been cleared for agricultural development ... To address this critical issue, ...
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 ...
Michael van der Poorten. The Sri Lanka Birdwing is common in rainforest habitats in the wet zone, but is also seen in the intermediate zone and dry zone. However, more than the dense forests, the ...
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 ...