The Ministry of Environment has announced plans to designate several forest areas located on government lands as official forest reserves under a new conservation initiative named "Vanaspathi." ...

New research revealed something both fascinating and deeply worrying: Sri Lanka's ancient refugia forests are now in serious ...

ECOSOC Resolution 2017/4: United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 and quadrennial programme of work of the United Nations Forum on Forests for the period 2017–2020 E/RES/2017/4 ...

For centuries, barefoot pilgrims have walked through the arid jungles and lush forests of Sri Lanka’s east and south, ...

Sri Lanka’s largest protected area, the Wilpattu National Park, recognized as one of the best places in the country to ...

A pioneering forest restoration initiative has taken root in the Siyabalagaswewa Forest and its surrounding landscape, located in the Thuppitiyawa Grama Niladhari (GN) Division of the Mahawilachchiya ...

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Sri Lanka's colonial-era laws echo those once seen across Asia. Many countries have repealed these laws — notably India in 2018 and Singapore in 2022 — but Sri Lanka still lags behind.

Trending News: India's rainforests, biodiversity hotspots in the Western Ghats and Northeast, harbor rare and elusive species. From the galaxy frog with its starry s ...

IUCN Sri Lanka Country Representative Dr. Shamen Vithanage said, “This was started in 2021 at a time when things were not in good shape for us. However, we managed to deliver it again as one of the ...

In a groundbreaking effort to advance environmental sustainability, HSBC Sri Lanka has taken a lead role in a pioneering Public-Private-People partnership to restore the Siyabalagaswewa Forest and its ...

The Sri Lankan Conflict Sri Lanka’s government has scored a string of wins in its long-standing civil war with Tamil militants. But it faces the challenge of integrating its Tamil minority ...