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Gratitude for Life
While the word biodiversity is gaining currency worldwide as a result of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) an internationally...
Continue reading »Dead men do tell tales
Photo courtesy Sri Lanka Guardian Watching the current commentary on the mass grave in Matale “There are allegations that the...
Continue reading »Unseasonal Rains
Devo vassatu Kalena (may the rains fall in due season) Sassa sampattu hetu ca (may there be a rich harvest)...
Continue reading »Echoes of Cuba
Photo by Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg, via Bloomberg I walk the hills rising from an azure blue Caribbean sea, and try to envision...
Continue reading »On the felling of trees
Photo courtesy Dushiyanthini “The trees being cut-down on Reid Avenue are the perfect example of the kind of ‘development’ that...
Continue reading »Forests: Beyond The Wood II
According to the FAO, 28.8% or about 1,860,000 ha of Sri Lanka is covered by trees. Of this only 9.0%...
Continue reading »Forests: Beyond The Wood I
It is time to recognize the fact that much of the investment in “forests” up to date has missed the...
Continue reading »Facing an Uncertain Future: A ‘non-suba anagathayak’
Photo courtesy Bindaas Madhavi While the so-called ‘rulers’ prance about in their hubris, ignoring the global events that will also affect...
Continue reading »Protecting Sri Lanka’s Ocean
Sri Lanka is exposed as the worst polluter of the Indian Ocean. The new maps on human impact on the...
Continue reading »The Urgent Need of a National Water Resources Policy
Sri Lanka is endowed with rich and sustainable water resources emanating from the central highlands. The island wide average of...
Continue reading »The National Soil Question: Part 2
Read Part 1 here. The effect of clearing the forests and allowing erosion of the soil, especially on the mountain...
Continue reading »The National Soil Question: Part 1
There are some very disturbing trends in the management of the land of this nation, that cries out for action,...
Continue reading »Towards an Informed Water Vision: Part 2
Uda Walawe Tank, photo submitted by author Through the nation water quality has become a serious problem. The Nitrate and...
Continue reading »Towards an Informed Water Vision: Part 1
Erosion from tea plantation. Photo submitted by author. The three basic substances of our biosphere, Air, Water and Soil share...
Continue reading »The Green Revolution and Rio
It has been many years of writing in the Sri Lankan media of the stupidity of the so-called Green Revolution...
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