By Ravi C. Peiris It is with profound sorrow that I pen these words in tribute to the late Ajit Jayaratne, a former Chairman ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

Never a dull day in Sri Lanka! Hardly a day passes without some controversy or another making headlines and even leading to ...

Lakdasa Wikkramasinha (1941-1978) has been acknowledged as one of the finest Sri Lankan poets writing in English. The Sri ...

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 ...