See All Key Ideas COLOMBO — Sri Lanka plans to quadruple the size of the protected area inside its last viable rainforest, in a nod to the ecological significance of the region. The Sinharaja ...

This visitor was none other than ‘Panu Kota’ — one of the elusive elephants known to roam the Sinharaja Rainforest and its adjoining villages. The Sinharaja forest is home to a pair of male elephants ...

The Sinharaja rainforest’s ‘Mixed Species Feeding Bird Flocks’ is a unique spectacle that can also be promoted as a tourist attraction, a leading zoologist said recently. Addressing a gathering of ...

The total area of Sinharaja recognized as World Heritage is about 8,860 ha; The Sri Lankan authorities have extended the area of the Sinharaja National Heritage Wilderness Area to 11,187 ha to ...

Now that the Environment Minister has blamed a Divisional Secretary, among others, for allowing the destruction of a part of Sinharaja, described by UNECO as the country’s ‘last viable area of primary ...

The construction of a controversial road cutting through a section of the Sinharaja Forest – a world heritage site and the only primary rain forest in Sri Lanka was suspended yesterday amid ...

A rare new orchid species found in the UNESCO-declared heritage lowland rainforest Sinharaja has been named in honor of two pioneering forest ecologists, Nimal and Savithri Gunatilleke.

Spread like a green blanket over Sabaragamuwa and Southern provinces, the Sinharaja Biosphere Reserve is the greatest remaining lush tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka. It is an incredibly enigmatic ...

On 14 February, 19 OSC learners, including 12 members of the school’s Gecko Young Reporters group, ventured into the rainforest borderlands just a few kilometres from the UNESCO World Heritage-listed ...