(Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas. B. Ranasinghe) Sinharaja is the last undisturbed extent of rainforest in Sri Lanka. It lies across the boundary between the ...

The Sinharaja Rainforest is the only wetland rainforest patch now available in Sri Lanka and it is also a World Heritage Site. Out of all national parks and forest reserves in Sri Lanka, Sinharaja ...

The Sinharaja Forest, spread across the districts of Ratnapura, Galle, and Matara, covers an area of 11,187 hectares. There are 22 villages surrounding this forest, and Lankagama, one of them, is ...

The Sinharaja Forest Reserve currently spans 8,864 hectares (21,903 acres) in the island’s southwest and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 because of its […] Features Videos ...

Workshop on location FOGSL will also conduct a special four-day workshop on Sinharaja Bird Flocks for bird lovers, in Sinharaja, starting October 8. The team will leave the University of Colombo on ...

In 2019, the then President Maithripala Sirisena ordered that the size of the Sinharaja rainforest (currently 8,864 hectares or 21,903 acres) ... In other words, about 38% of vehicles inspected by the ...

COLOMBO — A rare new orchid described from a tropical lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka now bears the name of two of the island’s pioneering forest ecologists.. A new paper published in the ...

By Mongabay.com 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.

In addition, the Centre transmitted to IUCN an additional letter, dated 30 May 2000, from the Sinharaja Plantations Organic Ltd. The Forest Department confirmed that the process to release land to ...