Human–Elephant Conflict: Lessons Not Learnt
Photo courtesy of Rohan Wijesinha “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana In 1949, a year after Sri Lanka gained independence, a Committee on the Preservation…
Author: Rohan Wijesinha
When Crying in the Wilderness is Just Not Enough
Photo courtesy of Facebook Today is the International Day of Forests “Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It’s only potential power. It only becomes…
Obliterating the Future by Committing Ecocide
Photo courtesy of Tharmapalan Tilaxan Today is World Wildlife Day “Ecocide is the destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action.” Oxford Languages Every day in Sri Lanka, newspapers, television…
Four Million Different Solutions to the Problems of Staying Alive
Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Foundation “Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, we’ve cut them down, dug them up, burnt them and poisoned them. Today we’re doing so…