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Author: Rohan Wijesinha

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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
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Obliterating the Future by Committing Ecocide

Oxford Languages Every day in Sri Lanka, newspapers, television and social media platforms cite examples of ecocide, a terrible crime that spells doom to the future of all life, human and otherwise.…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 03/03/202103/12/2021
Colombo, Development, Environment, Peace and Conflict

Four Million Different Solutions to the Problems of Staying Alive

David Attenborough Forest conservation is primarily about the survival of people, of us, as a species, of protecting ourselves from the detrimental consequences of our own actions. Yet we seem to be…

Rohan Wijesinha Rohan Wijesinha on 11/21/202011/21/2020

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