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 ...

Sinharaja is the last undisturbed extent of rainforest in Sri Lanka. It lies across the boundary between the Sabaragamuwa and Southern Provinces ... In their midst lay the Sinharaja Forest Reserve and ...

The committee that probed the controversial construction of a road through the Sinharaja rain forest has suggested ... ministry as the Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a World Heritage Site.

The construction of a controversial road cutting through a section of the Sinharaja Forest – a world heritage site and the only primary rain forest in Sri Lanka was suspended yesterday amid ...

After inspecting suspended development work President pointed out that the long-felt need of the rehabilitation of the road should be carried out while protecting the Sinharaja Forest Reserve and ...

Following news of construction activities in recent weeks in some peripheral parts of the Sinharaja Forest Reserve, environmentalists and civil society organisations have raised concerns about the ...

Spread like a green blanket over Sabaragamuwa and Southern provinces, the Sinharaja Biosphere Reserve is the greatest ... The main attraction of this virgin forest is the incredible biodiversity ...

Sri Lanka's rich biodiversity hotspot,Kanneliya forest ... than the Sinharaja forest. Director, ECT, Sajeeva Chamikara told Sandesaya that people living in the borders of the forest reserve ...

The area is the last virgin tropical forest left in the country, a World Heritage Site since 1988. Army engineers began work on 10 August. The UN agency blocked the same project in 2013.

On 14 February, 19 OSC learners, including 12 members of the school’s Gecko Young Reporters group, ventured into the rainforest borderlands just a few kilometres from the UNESCO World Heritage-listed ...