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Author: Rohan Wijesinha

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Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Time for Action to Halt Environmental Destruction

United Nations Observances In 1985, the United Nations declared that the first Monday in October is celebrated as World Habitat Day. The purpose was to “…to reflect on the state of our…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 10/02/202310/02/2023
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Human-Elephant Conflict Continues Unchecked

There are less than 500,000 wild elephants in the world. These comprise of just three families, the African Bush (Savannah) Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant; all are classified…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 08/12/202308/12/2023
Colombo, Development, Environment, Politics and Governance

Saving the Leopard from Slipping into Extinction

In 2021, the Wildlife & Nature Protection Society (WNPS), Sri Lanka’s oldest such organisation (the third in the world), with the aid of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC), persuaded the government…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 08/01/202308/02/2023
Colombo, Environment, Farming & Agriculture, Politics and Governance

Arming Farmers is Not the Answer to the Human-Elephant Conflict

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…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 06/05/202306/05/2023
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Saving Forests with Corporate and Public Responsibility

We know this and we know that despite all of their expressed concerns and intentions that the policymakers have little thought of doing much to reverse this trend. Rather than bemoan this…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 03/21/202303/23/2023
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Politics and Governance

Short Sighted Policies Destroying Sri Lanka’s Wildlife

In February 2023, the prestigious Forbes magazine proclaimed Sri Lanka as having the Top Wildlife Safaris Outside of Africa for the year 2023. “The nation has one of the planet’s densest populations…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 03/03/2023
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Deep Jungle Fever: A Symptom of a Greater Malady

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…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 02/17/202302/18/2023
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Politics and Governance

Conservation: Reaching a Point of No Return

Last year, Covid dominated all conversations and contributed to the further exacerbation of a multitude of existing man-made environmental and conservation disasters. “Sadly, conservation management decisions seem now to be made at…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 01/25/202301/25/2023
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Farming & Agriculture, Politics and Governance

Vital Northern Mangroves Need Uncompromising Protection

Tashiya de Mel On the northern coast of Sri Lanka in the Mannar District is a place of extraordinary importance to conservation and to the economic wellbeing of the human populations who…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 12/22/202212/22/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

The Horror Of Horowpathana: Starving Elephants to Death

Right now, and understandably, the media is consumed by the political events of the day, matters of such magnitude that the very future of Sri Lanka is at stake; the wrong decisions…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 05/04/202205/05/2022
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Politics and Governance

Ecosystem Restoration? Stop the Continuing Destruction

The laudable theme of this year’s World Wildlife Day is Ecosystem Restoration. What a noble ideal but is it applicable to Sri Lanka? In the last two years, the country has seen…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 03/03/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Conservation in 2021: A Year Like No Other

In 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic devastated the world and under its malevolent cloak, Sri Lanka’s environment, wildlife and wilderness had to face some of the greatest threats they have ever had. Not…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 01/15/202201/15/2022
Colombo, Development, Environment, Politics and Governance

Scattering The Gathering: Intentional or Unintentional?

In a media release dated October 21, 2021 Dr. Anil Jasinghe, Secretary to the Ministry of Environment, in requesting a National Eco-tourism Plan to promote the tourism industry as well as environmental…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 10/29/202110/29/2021
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Human–Elephant Conflict: Lessons Not Learnt

In 1949, a year after Sri Lanka gained independence, a Committee on the Preservation of Wildlife (Sessional paper XIX – 1949) recommended that when development takes place, elephants living in the proposed…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 05/04/202105/09/2021
Colombo, Economy, Environment, Politics and Governance

When Crying in the Wilderness is Just Not Enough

“Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It’s only potential power. It only becomes power when we apply it and use it.” Jim Kwik These are…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 03/21/202103/22/2021

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