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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, Development, Environment, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Critical Zone: In Search of New Aesthetics

We are living in a critical zone. Have you ever thought of the critical nature of the zone that we live? Probably not; we take the earth that we live on for…

Godwin Constantine Godwin Constantine on 12/08/202212/09/2022
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

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