Map showing the vegetation zones of Sri Lanka after Erdelen (1988) and Roberts et al. (2015a). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Heavy clouds rolled overhead, clearing out the day’s humidity in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. Below a forested hillside, tea pickers in colorful saris moved among rows of electric-green bushes, as ...

A new species of day gecko has been recorded from a savanna forest with rock outcrops and prehistoric granite caves in Sri Lanka. The Nilgala savanna forest is home to 17 species of geckos, as well as ...

Forests, the lifeblood for the maintenance of ecological balance and human existence, move down the priority list when money does the talking. The triple bottom line: People, Planet and Prosperity ...

This year, the International Day of Forests is marked under the apt theme ‘Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being’. Forest restoration is one of the priority areas for mitigating the ...

Sri Lanka’s last lowland wet forests can be found south of the central mountains at Sinharaja. Rich with birdlife and also leech-infested, every naturalist visiting Sri Lanka should visit this ...

COLOMBO — Environmental activists in Sri Lanka are celebrating the end of a 2020 decree that left the island’s nonprotected forests more vulnerable to agriculture and development projects. “This is a ...

In 1983, Sri Lanka became embroiled in a 26-year-long civil war in which a rebel militant organization fought to establish an independent state called Tamil Eelam. The war took an enormous human toll; ...

The Conservator General of Forests K.M.A Bandara said that the media reports implying that Sri Lanka’s forest cover has decreased to 16% are false. He said this in response to a query made regarding ...

Patrick Roberts, Thomas H. Gillingwater, Marta Mirazon Lahr, Julia Lee-Thorp, Malcolm MacCallum, Michael Petraglia, Oshan Wedage, Uruwaruge Heenbanda, Uruwaruge ...

Colombo: Senior Sri Lankan officials on Wednesday held a preliminary discussion on launching a 1,000-acre forest plantation project in collaboration with the private sector, under the Clean Sri Lanka ...