Photo courtesy of France 24 The beginning of the southwest monsoon season has triggered heavy rains causing flash floods and mud slides across several districts across the country. The risk of increased…
Photo courtesy of Gizmodo Australia Today is World Oceans Day The incident The container ship, X-Press Pearl, was registered in Singapore and operated by one of the largest feeder ship operators in…
Photo courtesy of New York Post “There will be huge amounts of compensation for the damage caused by the X-Press Pearl vessel in the Sri Lankan waters, this is indeed essential to…
Photo courtesy of The Independent Sri Lanka is currently experiencing the greatest marine disaster in its history caused by the burning and sinking of the MV X-Press Pearl in the shallow waters…
Photo courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda Today is the World Environment Day The theme for the World Environment Day 2021 is Ecosystem Restoration. The main aim of the World Environment Day this year…
Photo courtesy of EcoWatch After 12 days, the ship MV X-Press Pearl finally sank about 9.5 nautical miles from the Colombo harbour. It has not sunk fully because it is touching a…
Photo courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity Sri Lankans live in a biodiversity hotspot. We may take our lush tropical hinterland and the remaining forests for…
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…
Photo courtesy of Rukshan Kuru-Utumpala Sinharaja’s conservation status is of “significant concern”. According to the World Heritage Outlook, published by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Sinharaja has been assessed in…
Photo courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda The Sinharaja Rainforest has been in the public eye for a few weeks now. Is it being threatened by encroachment and development? Will it lose its UNESCO…
Photo courtesy of Namal Kamalgoda Today is World Water Day World Water Day 2021, at the start of a critical decade for climate action and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), opens with an…
Photo courtesy of Twitter “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two is four. If that is allowed all else follows.” George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four) To mark the Global Climate Action…
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…
Photo courtesy of Twitter “This country can never be developed as long as there are environmentalists.” “Can we eat oxygen?” “Those who come to our villages and speak against development think that…
Photo courtesy of Rukshan Jayewardene Although Sri Lanka is a richly biodiverse island and is accordingly famed for its wildlife abundance, its varied eco-systems spread throughout the island, two land mammals in…
