Silently emerging from the shadows of the rainforest, the lone elephant stepped gently onto the rain-soaked earth, leaving deep footprints in the muddy ground. It paused to feed on a banana tree ...

The Sinharaja rainforest’s ‘Mixed Species Feeding Bird Flocks’ is a unique spectacle that can also be promoted as a tourist attraction, a leading zoologist said recently. Addressing a gathering of ...

The Provincial Council of Sabaragamuwa has opposed the proposal strongly and now the LRC has informed the Forestry Department (FD) that the leasing out of a block of land from the buffer zone of ...

Currently, a large portion of the forest system in Sinharaja has been fragmented due to hotel construction activities and mechanised mining, posing significant threats to the endemic species ...

But in a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an unusual population of langurs has captured attention, becoming a local tourist attraction. Purple-faced ...

The private enterprise concerned, Sinharaja Plantations Organic (PVT) Ltd., has written to the Director of the Centre raising preliminary objections against the reacquisition of land released earlier ...