Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Sections
    • A-Z of Sri Lankan English
    • Banyan News Reporters
    • Longing and Belonging
    • Long Reads
    • LLRC Archive
  • Authors
  • Editors
  • Special Editions
    • End of war | 5 years on
    • 30 Years Ago
    • Mediated | Art
    • Moving Images
    • End of War
    • Remember the Riots
  • About
  • Contact
  • Site Guidelines
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • Subscribe: RSS | EMAIL
  • ARCHIVES
Groundviews

Environment

Year
Month
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Converting Conflict into Coexistence Between Humans and Elephants

Photo courtesy of Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne The situation of Asian elephants, Sri Lankan elephants in particular, is critical due to the increase in human-elephant conflicts. Even before the current economic crisis, Human-Elephant…

Anuradhi D. Jayasinghe Anuradhi D. Jayasinghe on 08/12/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Saving the Sri Lankan Leopard from Extinction

The leopard is a big cat in the genus Panthera () that has a distribution throughout sub-Saharan Africa, through the Middle East and into several countries in Asia. Once occupying a vast…

Rukshan Jayewardene Rukshan Jayewardene on 07/30/202207/31/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Conserving and Protecting Sri Lanka’s Threatened Marine Resources

The oceans around Sri Lanka are a vital resource for food security, trade and shipping, coastal livelihoods, tourism, coastal protection and national security. Its coastal and marine resources and biological diversity, as…

Groundviews Groundviews on 06/08/2022
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Politics and Governance

Protecting the Environment in Times of Economic Turmoil

World Environment Day is celebrated every year to highlight the importance of the environment we live in. This year the theme is only one planet but to Sri Lankans it would be…

Jayantha Wijesingha Jayantha Wijesingha on 06/05/202206/06/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Protecting and Preserving the Environment Against All Odds

The country’s recent economic and political woes have taken the spotlight away from the myriad cases of blatant environmental degradation going on every day. Big business interests, corrupt officials, unscrupulous politicians and…

Groundviews Groundviews on 06/05/2022
Colombo, Environment

Preventing the Extinction of Species

Sri Lanka is home to about 900 species of vertebrates, about 960 species groups of invertebrates (mostly insects), 3,000 species of seed bearing plants and 1,750 species of lower plants. There are…

Professor Sampath Seneviratne Professor Sampath Seneviratne on 05/22/2022
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
#GoHomeGota, Constitutional Reform, Corruption, Economy, Environment, justice

A Brief Response to the Current National Crisis – A Way Forward

Sri Lanka is at a crossroad, facing multiple crises, as well as the present impasse of an unwanted Executive with all powers and an inadequate Legislature with little powers. The call of…

Dr. Anila Dias Bandaranaike and Prof. Sharya Scharenguivel Dr. Anila Dias Bandaranaike and Prof. Sharya Scharenguivel on 04/22/202204/23/2022
#GoHomeGota, #GotaGoHome, Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Taking the Fight Against Ecocide to the Galle Face Protest

The last two years have witnessed the unparalleled destruction of Sri Lanka’s environment, with more than 1,000 cases of environmental degradation being reported throughout the country. The plundering of natural resources by…

Groundviews Groundviews on 04/22/202204/22/2022
Colombo, Environment, Politics and Governance

Preserving and Protecting the Hidden Resource of Groundwater

Each World Water Day brings with it a new theme and a new resurgence of interest, although momentary, in that most critical source of support for human lives and ecosystems – water.…

Kusum Athukorala Kusum Athukorala on 03/22/202203/22/2022
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, Corruption, Development, Environment, Politics and Governance

A Disastrous 2021 and Conservation Challenges in 2022

Environmental conservation in Sri Lanka is as challenging as the economy of the country. Environmental degradation is fully supported and carried out with the blessings of corrupt politicians. This has been the…

Jayantha Wijesingha Jayantha Wijesingha on 01/02/202201/02/2022
Colombo, Economy, Environment, Farming & Agriculture, Politics and Governance

Making Cash from Trash

The organic fertilizer ship from China was one of the hotly debated topics in Sri Lanka. The quality of the fertilizer shipment, which resulted heated exchanges between the stakeholders, almost sparked a…

Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi on 12/30/202103/22/2022
Colombo, Development, Economy, Environment, Farming & Agriculture, Politics and Governance, Science and Technology

Smashing Fertilizer Myths

About a decade ago, a statement by a medical doctor in the United States made overnight headlines. He was a popular television personality too. When he learned about the presence of arsenic…

Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi Prof. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi on 11/23/202103/22/2022

Posts navigation

Older posts

  • Popular
  • Recent

Facebook

Groundviews

Twitter

Tweets by @groundviews

Copyright © 2016 Groundviews. All rights reserved. All content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Web Design & Development by SABERION