An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a move hailed as a long-overdue conservation victory, Sri Lanka has formally ...

The journey from Sri Lanka's central highlands to its southeast coast takes you through some of the island nation's most beautiful and untamed places, said Lorna Parkes in National Geographic ...

Leaders representing indigenous people in Sri Lanka have called on the government to formulate a special law to protect their rights and provide proper access to courts in case these rights are ...

Sri Lanka is an island open to all people of the whole world. It is an island of human beings. So human beings should enjoy and have a kind of a warmness of others, that is the message that we want to ...

After a passenger bus in Sri Lanka veered off of a cliff and fell into a ravine, 21 people died and 35 others were injured. Sri Lankan authorities are investigating the cause of the accident.

A decades-long fight for constitutional recognition of rights of Sri Lanka’s indigenous peoples is nearing its goal. After 26 years of campaigning by various stakeholders, including the small ...

The myth of a Tamil homeland collapses under scrutiny of historical records, colonial chronicles, and demographic facts. The ...

A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.

A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.

Sri Lanka’s indigenous people deserve the protection of their fundamental rights in the constitution that guarantees “the right to equality, freedom of occupation, and freedom of movement” for ...

A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.