When Senior biodiversity scientist Vimukthi Weeratunga speaks of Sinharaja, his voice carries the weight of four decades spent beneath its dripping emerald canopy. To him, Sri Lanka’s last great ...

New information: The Centre and IUCN received reports in early 2000 from the Environmental Law Foundation of Sri Lanka that raised concerns over possible threats to the integrity of this site due to ...

Hundreds of scientific publications have been published on this important real estate, but much of the information is out of reach for general public. Hence, four authors have compiled a book on the ...

Environmental activist Nisantha Gajasinghe says Sinharaja Forest is home to flora and fauna unique to Sri Lanka. The forest system has been instrumental in Sri Lanka being named among the 34 highest ...

A theft of spores from rare and protected plant species growing in Sinharaja Forest, a world heritage site and the only primary rain forest in Sri Lanka, was uncovered recently by Wildlife Officers ...

Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. Ethugala, A. U. K. Davies, Stuart James. 2004. "Sinharaja 25 hectare plot: comparisons with other forests in the CTFS network." In Ecology of Sinharaja rain forest and the ...

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