The Sinharaja World Heritage Site forest is under threat from land grabs, illegal trawling in Puttalam is destroying fish stocks, elephants die painful deaths eating garbage dumped across the country, ...

Around 1.6 billion people—including more than 2,000 indigenous cultures—depend on forests for their livelihoods, medicines, fuel, food and shelter. The fact that Sinharaja forest reserve is a precious ...

Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a forest reserve and a biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka. It is of international significance and has been designated a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Minister of Environment Mahinda Amaraweera says a full investigation is being carried out into the accuracy of the land deeds of the property in Sinharaja Forest, where plans for the construction of a ...

A project to establish a protection center to translocate the two rare elephants in the Sinharaja forest Reserve is in progress. The Minister of Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Regional ...