The protected area officially named Sinharaja, so situated, is part of a larger forest of that name. The rest of it includes Forest Reserves or Proposed Reserves under other names, some of which are ...

Theirs maybe the final trumpet call Sri Lanka would hear from within the Sinharaja Rainforest, as they are a ‘unique pair’ within an already ‘unique’ area. The last of the two Sinharaja elephants, ...

For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. These white ...

A recent attempt to relocate two rare elephants from the Sinharaja Forest Reserve created a controversy within environmentalists as the UNESCO would de-list the area as a world heritage site.

The Sinharaja Forest Reserve in southern Sri Lanka will be expanded fourfold through the incorporate of surrounding forests into the protected area. The new reserve will span 36,000 hectares ...

For both foreign and local tourists Sinharaja Forest is certainly not a hot spot like Yala or Wilpattu. It elicits neither excitement nor thrills. Traveling inside requires no jeeps nor four wheel ...

Environmental activist Nisantha Gajasinghe says Sinharaja Forest is home to flora and fauna unique to Sri Lanka. The forest system has been instrumental in Sri Lanka being named among the 34 highest ...

The area is the last virgin tropical forest left in the country, a World Heritage Site since 1988. Army engineers began work on 10 August. The UN agency blocked the same project in 2013.