Photo courtesy of WNPS Today is World Environment Day Policymakers cursed with a lack of original thinking, especially with the possibility of elections in the offing, resort to knee jerk reactions to long standing problems rather than seek informed advice and have the patience to wait for success. This, of course, is unrealistic in this day and age of politics ...
Far, very farsky bends down, to kiss the oceanFatigue Sun at day endpaints there beautifulI paddle, paddle with my penreaching there, ambitiousSinging birds fly over melight and happyWhere are they heading?Are they tooin search of the horizon...
How can the most ambitious renewable power project in Sri Lanka can have this many detrimental impacts on the environment and the local communities of Mannar? Thambapawani, a derivation of the name after which Sri Lanka was supposedly called by King Vijaya upon his arrival on the island, is the country’s first large scale wind farm, started in 2019 and ...
Photo courtesy of WNPS Today is International Day of Forests “According to Global Forest Watch, in 2021 Sri Lanka lost 13.3kha of natural forest. The same source indicates that between 2013 and 2021, 100% of tree cover lost was of natural forests (202kha). Though the figures for 2022 are yet to be calculated and confirmed, from the multitude of media ...
Benefits to be shared in a free and equitable manner Published on SundayTimes on 12.03.2023 https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230312/news/lanka-hails-historic-un-deal-to-protect-high-seas-resources-514390.html The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface and each country is given the right to manage an area of oceans extending 200 nautical miles (about 370km) from the shore which is known as the ‘Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)’. The ...
Photo courtesy of WNPS The traditional conservation laws and policies of Sri Lanka are largely not working. If they were there would not be so much unrestrained destruction of wildlife and forests. These pieces of legislation were drafted in a previous age; a time when the human populations were smaller and the knowledge of the wilderness and things wild relied ...
An inconspicuous little culvert along the Minneriya-Polonnaruwa route has become an unusual tourist attraction. While usually seen alone or in a pair, this shaded waterhole — aptly named the ‘Kabara Bokkuwa’ (කබර බොක්කුව) — is home to a bank of some 15 kabaragoya, Asian water monitors (Varanus salvator salvator) that has formed a rather peculiar reciprocal relationship with a local ...
Published on SundayTimes on 05.02.2023 https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230205/news/net-entangled-whale-shark-rescued-and-released-into-ocean-510430.html With the hope of getting a good catch, a group of fisherfolk gathered at Nawakkadu beach in Puttalam on Monday. They laid a large ma dela (seine fishing net) in the morning and began pulling on the ropes after some time. The ma dela felt heavier than the other days, and this brought smiles to their ...
Twenty of Sri Lanka’s 34 known endemic bird species are now threatened, the National Red List on the conservation status of native birds report. Ten endemic bird species have seen their conservation status deteriorate from the last time the National Red List was published – that was in 2012. Over 520 bird species call Sri Lanka their home, and many ...
As Sri Lanka’s armed conflict intensified in July 2008, a fierce battle was waged between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels over the strategically important coastal town of Vidataltivu in the Mannar district. After heavy fighting that lasted many days, government troops finally captured the area, considered one of the main bases and logistic hubs of the terror outfit. ...
PET Bottle Christmas Tree, the Christmas tree constructed using only plastic bottles is on display at the Wellawatte beach, for the fourth consecutive year. Standing 12 feet tall, the Christmas tree was made using over 1500 polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, all of which had been collected from the beach. The Pearl Protectors, together with members of the Rotaract Club of ...
Photo courtesy of Daily Mirror We are living in a critical zone. Have you ever thought of the critical nature of the zone that we live? Probably not; we take the earth that we live on for granted and we do what ever we want with it. The critical issues about this zone were the focus of a recent exhibition ...
Coral reefs are one of Sri Lanka’s most precious marine ecosystems, but their numbers here have dramatically reduced due to human activity and climate change. In episode three of Strong Foundations, Sadé Greenwood travels to the seaside town of Rumassala on Sri Lanka’s south-west coastline to find out how the Tokyo Cement Group, together with the Blue Resources Trust, Ocean ...
The Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that roughly LKR 54 billion is lost in crop damages caused by wild animals. According to Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, wild elephants, peacocks, porcupines, giant squirrels and wild boar are among the species that cause the most damage to crops and have become a serious barrier to meeting the food requirements of the country. The ...
#villagelife #villagecooking #srilankanfood grandma make herbal porridge for jayami and she love that with jugri. With few herbals and coconut milk use to make this herbal drink.
