A new report identifies the main threats to biodiversity in Sri Lanka — river diversion, habitat loss, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation, and climate change — as well as updates ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka— Human-elephant and human-leopard encounters in Sri Lanka have garnered much attention in recent months and years, and for good reason: More than 14,500 incidents of human ...

The loss of biodiversity threatens food supplies, sources of wood, medicines, energy, and opportunities for recreation, ... Protecting biodiversity in Sri Lanka to serve humanity.

However, deforestation, forest degradation and biodiversity loss are ongoing, with the annual rate of deforestation resulting in a loss of about 7,147 ha/year during the period of 1992 to 2010 alone.

Sri Lanka is a biodiversity hotspot, and you can indulge in some wildlife viewing while in Tangalle. The Udawalawe National Park is just 43 miles away from the town, and it is home to 400 resident ...

Second, already there should have been a loss of over 70 per cent of the original native habitat of such endemic species in that location. Sri Lanka qualifies under both. All the biodiversity hotspots ...

By Ifham Nizam The establishment of Sri Lanka’s iconic tea industry dates back to 1865, when tea seeds from the Botanic Gardens in Peradeniya were planted by the then superintendent of the ...

Sri Lanka has about 250,000 active fishermen and 100,000 supporting workers in the fisheries sector, totaling roughly one million people involved in fishing, according to official estimates. The ...

Their headline finding is the sheer wealth of coral biodiversity along the very northern tip of the Jaffna Peninsula and a handful of nearby islands in Palk Bay. They found 113 species of hard, or ...

Simultaneously a number of natural resources management strategies were developed, such as the Strategy for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity of 1994; Biodiversity ...