Two weeks after Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, the actual environmental cost of the disaster remains largely unknown, as ...

The Global Crisis. Deforestation and human-animal conflict have become dangerously intertwined as natural habitats shrink.

In a press conference today in Colombo, Sri Lanka, US-based NGO Seacology, Sri Lanka-based NGO Sudeesa, and the government of Sri Lanka announced a joint program that will make Sri Lanka the first nat ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka continues to grapple with the human toll of Cyclone Ditwah, which triggered devastating floods and ...

The focus on Sri Lanka’s deforestation and the conservation of forests this year can be traced back to widespread discussions about deforestation in Wilpattu National Park back in 2019. Deforestation ...

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

A 50-acre forest patch located in Diyagama, a suburb coming under the Homagama Divisional Secretariat has become home to over ...

On December 26, 2004, a cataclysmic tsunami struck the coasts of countries in South and Southeast Asia. Sri Lanka was one of the worst affected nations – the wall of water devastated the island’s ...

Working closely with Wanniyalaeto (Vedda) elders in Sri Lanka during the repatriation of skeletal remains, a team of researchers have demonstrated that while some indigenous hunter-gatherers in Sri ...

Chiyo Kanda, World Bank’s Country Manager for Maldives and Sri Lanka At a high-level virtual event to announce Sri Lanka’s Forest Sector Master Plan: Adopting New Sectoral Priorities to Face the ...