Can anyone give me the identity of these guys?Location : Wilpattu National Park - Sri LankaDate(s): 15th-17th March 2013 Camera Model Name : Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL | Tv(Shutter Speed) : 1/1250Sec. | Av(Aperture Value) : F5.6 | Metering Modes : Evaluative metering | Exposure Compensation : -1/3 | ISO Speed : 400 | Lens : EF70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM | Focal Length : 300mm

It was my third trip to Miami Florida. A trip undertaken with much financial constrains; to witness my son being conferred a Ph.D. I had been to Miami twice before and seen much of its wildlife, camped many a times in the Everglades and been out birding in the parks. However it was this time that I had been there ...

Kinkakuji, Kyoto Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto Hiroshima Hachinohe Hachinohe Lake Towada, Aomori Oirase Stream, Aomori Filed under: Autumn, Nature, Outdoor Tagged: Aomori, Hachinohe, Hiroshima, Japan, Kyoto, Lake Towada, Oirase, Travels

Little Birdy searching for its mommy...

Bird Watching too is not free from assertion ….it is noted that certain birds are only identified by their silhouetted flight profile and one may not see them rested on a branch or sitting on a nest in one's lifetime.Two such birds have lingered my memory until resent. The Indian Swiftlet [Collocalia uniclor] and the Brown-backed Needle Tail [Hirundapus giganteus] ...

Crocodile, tortoise and pangolins were being cooked in numbers at a restaurant in Hambantota and served up to Chinese workers at Hambantota Port who had flocked to the eatery to munch on the protected fauna they viewed as delicacies. Some of the illicit meat that was found during the raid Local residents yesterday said the Hambantota restaurant had attracted crowds ...

By Malaka Rodrigo. Conservationists have called for the protection of pangolins, a type of ant-eater known as “kaballawa” or “eya” after it was named the animal at the highest risk in the National Red List of Threatened Fauna and Flora’s “Near-Threatened” category.�Pangolins are found throughout Sri Lanka and used to be seen living close to human habitation but poaching and ...

The story of Bottled Water

Sri Lanka’s fame as a global amphibian hotspot got a further boost last week with the discovery of eight new amphibian species. This discovery, takes the number of amphibians found in Sri Lanka to 119 with 103 being found only in this country and was published in the prestigious ‘Journal of Threatened Taxa’. The new species possess unique characteristics that ...

Have you realized 5 international days that are having some Environmental Importance were fallen on last week..?? Yes, 23rd.March: Earth Hour & World Meteorological Day, 22nd. March: World Water Day, 21st March: World Forest Day and 20th March: World Sparrows Day were those special days celebrated last week. On Saturday 23rd of March two environmentally important days Earth Hourand the ...

Sea Bird NOTE: Could not find the exact name of this bird. If you can identify please leave a comment. Photo taken at the entrance of Downtown Shopping Centre, Auckland CDB, New Zealand. Photograph by Kesara Rathnayake [flickr]. ——This image was created with free open source softwares UFRaw and Gimp.This image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

The World Health Organization’s recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Assessment estimates that outdoor air pollution causes 620,000 premature deaths per year in India, a six fold increase since 2000. The main causes are growing emissions of particulate emissions (PM10) from transport and power plants. GBD in this analysis has ranked air pollution as the sixth most dangerous killer in ...

Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis) Called as "Polkichcha" in Sri Lanka.

Water we all need water to live. But at the same time  all of us  wasting water so much a day, check the below infographic  how much we using per day and to produce food, drink and to having bath how much water we spending. Even for out daily use electricity need more water. Infographic : Printrest Prev image show to Produce some ...

Today, 21st March, is the International Day of Forests. This date was agreed by the UN General Assembly in November last year so that every year there would be one day set aside to “celebrate and raise awareness” of forests. Forest is a valuable Ecosystem (c) Greenpeace Sri Lanka is considered as a global Biodiversity Hotspot and the diversity of ...

Monsoons are having higher rainfall and also the possibility of monsoon failure. This is a big deal as we found out last December with flooding all over the country. Our water management needs to take into account even greater rainfall rates. That is expect more rain to fall in shorter time periods but also expect possibility of extended drought. The ...

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is indeed a special bird that was common decades ago. They were considered a good-will bird, so boxes, pots with holes were kept inviting them to nest near our houses. Sparrows were a common scene in most  the public places like markets or railway stations. But this bird once commonly recorded started to disappear without our ...

At the 9th South Asia Economics Students' Meet on Green Growth, participants shared their vision about South Asian cities of the future. These are their innovative ideas “Without taking care of the environment we are shaving digits off GDP and, therefore, limiting our very potential for the future.” Economic growth in South Asia is driven primarily by exports which has ...

Sri Lanka’s second International Airport at Mattala/Hambanthota opens today. The airport has been shifted from Weerawila to Mattala due to protests by farmers and environmentalists. But the new location is further into the heart of Elephant Territory, alleges Environmentalist. The Researchers has radio-collared elephants from selected herds roaming in the area and the satellite based data shows  the kind of ...

While the word biodiversity is gaining currency worldwide as a result of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) an internationally binding set of agreements. Whose articles are legally binding and used today to address some or other aspect of nature. Thus it is critical to appreciate the true nature of biodiversity and what role it has in our future. ...