Author Archive for Nature
Saturday, July 15th, 2023
Courtesy Mongabay COLOMBO — Fireflies, with their bioluminescent rears, are fascinating species that appeal to people’s imaginations, especially those of children. In Sri Lanka, the first systematic study of fireflies was carried out by British naturalists in the 18th century, but afterward, there was a loss of interest in studying these fascinating creatures. Shedding new light […]
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Sunday, May 14th, 2023
Justice for Animals and Nature We must celebrate Mother’s Day as a Day of Tribute to the mothers of all Species. All of them raise their offspring with boundless love and affection. Mother’s Day must be inclusive of all mothers, and not only mothers of the dominant species. It must be celebrated in the future across the board […]
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
සටහන : – පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික නව භෞමික උඩවැඩියා ශාක විශේෂයක් සබරගමු පළාතේ රත්නපුර දිස්ත්රික්කයෙහි රත්නපුර ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාස සීමාවේ වලංකන්ද ප්රදේශය තුලින් සොයා ගැනීමට පර්යේෂකයන් පිරිසක් සමත්වී තිබේ. රත්නපුර ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ වලන්කන්ද ප්රදේශයේ අධ්යනයේ යෙදුනු පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ ආචාර්ය උපාධි අපේක්ෂක, පේරාදෙණිය උද්භිද උද්යාන ජාතික ශාකාගාරයේ හිටපු නිලධාරියකු වන භාතිය ගොපල්ලව […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2023
Courtesy The Morning Conservator General of Forests K.M.A Bandara has refuted media reports implying that Sri Lanka’s forest cover has reduced to 16%. He said this in response to a query made regarding the media report on the instructions of President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. The Presidential Secretariat had focused […]
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Sunday, November 6th, 2022
Justice for Animals and Nature The definition of ‘True Humanity’ must go beyond the species of Humanity. This is the true test of our Humanity. If Humans confine themselves to the well-being of only one species i.e. Homo Sapiens ( human species) and remain indifferent to the well-being of non-human beings (other species) and the […]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2022
පරිසර ක්රියාකාරී පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මෙරට ඉහල ජෛව විවිධත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබෙන සංවේදී පරිසර පද්ධතියක් වන කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයට අයත් නාවලකන්ද පාරිසරික කලාපයට මායිම්ව පිහිටි හලවල්කැලේ ග්රාමසේවා වසමේ ගම්වාසීන්ට හට දඩයක්කරුවෙකුගේ බදින ලද තුවක්වකුවකට හසුව දරුණු ලෙස තුවාල ලබා අවතැන්ව සිටි ගෝණෙකු 2022.06.24 දින උදෑසන ප්රදේශයේ වනාන්තර කොටසක් තුල සිටියදී හමුවී තිබුණි. […]
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නෝ සංවිධානය විල්පත්තු වන විනාශය මෙන් 20 ගුණයක වන විනාශයක්. මොනරාගල දිස්ත්රික්කයේ සියඹලාණ්ඩුව ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අයත් වත්තේගම කැබලිත්ත කොටියාගල වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයත් ඉතා වටිනා රක්ෂිත වනාන්තර ප්රදේශ කාලයක සිට ප්රදේශයේ දේශපාලනඥයින්ගේ සහායද ඇතිව හොරෙන්ම අල්ලාගෙන නොයෙක් ආකාරයේ වගාවන් සිදු කිරීම මහා පරිමාණ ව්යාපාරිකයින් සහ අතලොස්සක් දූෂිත රාජ්ය නිලධාරීන් එකතුව කරගෙන යන්නේ වසර […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
By Rain Jordan Courtesy Nture World News To safeguard the world’s largest mammal, scientists and conservation organizations advocate for one of the world’s busiest shipping channels to be redirected. Researchers have been piecing together information about a little-known, vulnerable group of blue whales that lives off the southern coast of Sri Lanka since 2008. What they’ve […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න ශ්රී ලංකාවට අවේනික සහ දුර්ලභ ශාක විශේෂයක් බස්නාහිර පළාතේ කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයෙහි වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාස සීමාවේ නාවලකන්ද වනාන්තර පද්ධතියට යාබදව පවතින්නා වූ ගුලවිට උතුර ග්රාමසේවා වසම තුලින් සොයා ගැනීමට පර්යේෂකයන් පිරිසක් සමත්වී තිබේ. Strobilanthes rhytisperma යන විද්යාත්මක නාමයෙන් හඳුන්වන මෙම නෙළු ශාක විශේෂය 1867 වර්ෂයේදී මධ්යම පළාත තුල සහ 1971 වර්ෂයේදී අවසන් […]
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Monday, September 27th, 2021
RT Documentary In the We Are Different film by RT Documentary, three people born with various genetic disorders adjust to life and find purpose and happiness against the odds. According to Konstantin Severinov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Genetic information is stored in DNA as a sequence of chemical letters, figuratively speaking.” The human genome contains […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily News Tissa Wewa The Holy City of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka is a place unlikely to be the setting for a fascinating tale of flying objects and other mundane events. Anuradhapura, named after a King’s chieftain called Anuradha, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world. It thus means […]
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
By Laura Millan Lombrana Courtesy Insurance Journal Contaminants released from the wreckage of a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka could be dragged thousands of kilometers by ocean currents, impacting wildlife and humans in far-reaching latitudes. Authorities and salvage crews are now working to prevent the more than 300 metric tons of oil transported […]
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
by Amila Prasanna Sumanapala on 18 May 2021 Courtesy Mongabay Nearly half of the 130 known species of dragonflies and damselflies in Sri Lanka are found nowhere else on Earth. The highest endemic species density is found in the island’s central highlands, attributed to the variations in the geography and climatic conditions as different mountain ranges […]
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy The Daily Mirror While condemning the media reports, the Forest Conservation Department (FCD) said that there was no truth behind clearing an elephant corridor in the Sinharaja Forest Reserve for the construction of a hotel. While issuing a report, the Department said the claimed hotel construction takes place 3.5 to 5 km […]
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
By Nalova Akua courtesy BBC 30th March 2021An invasive water weed has decimated the wildlife and economy of one of Cameroon’s most significant lakes. But a tiny, ravenous weevil could reverse the region’s fortunes.A A flock of water birds scavenges for insects on the dense, leafy weed that covers much of Lake Ossa, one of Cameroon’s […]
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 30 (Daily Mirror): The human-elephant conflict is a modern phenomenon owning its existence to man’s increasing developmental needs and the expansion of the human population due to improved health and living conditions of people. Pushed by sheer need, if not greed, man has been forcibly intruding into places where […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy Adaderana An artificial beach created along Kalutara’s Calido Beach, the Ratmalana-Angulana stretch and in Mount Lavinia, which raised strong protests from activists, has been successful, Coast Conservation and Coastal Resource Management Department Chief Engineer (Coastal Design & Research) Sujeewa Ranawaka said. He told the Dailymirror that the project was implemented to build […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න කළුතර දිස්ත්රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසය හරහා දිවෙන හොරවල-පැලවත්ත මාර්ගයේ ලිහිණියාව ප්රදේශයේදී 2021.03.22 වන අද දින උදෑසන ත්රීරෝධ රථයක ගැටී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වෙසෙන බළල් කුලයේ දෙවැනි විශාලතම සත්ත්වයා වන Fishing Cat යන ඉංග්රීසී නාමයෙන් හඳුන්වන, හඳුන් දිවියෙකු මරණයට පත්විය. මෙම සත්වයා උසින් අඩි දෙකකට ආසන්න ගැහැණු සතෙකු වන අතර මරණයට පත්වූ මෙම […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2021
Destination SRI LANKA Technical Input by Dr Herath Mantritilake – People Friendship University (Moscow) graduate and an old Nalandian Sri Lanka’s hydraulic civilization spans over two Millenia and is integral part of our agricultural heritage. Watch the story of the origins, the rise, the golden age, the decline and the resurgence of this technology. Voice […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ගම්පහ හෙනරත්ගොඩ ඇතුළු දිවයිනේ ස්ථාන කිහිපයකම කෲඩියා සිලනිකා ශාඛය සංරක්ෂණය කර ඇතැයි ජාතික උද්භිද උද්යාන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව පවසයි. එම ශාඛය රනිල කුලයේ ශාඛයක් වන අතර නයිට්රජන් එකතු කිරීමේ ඇති හැකියාව හැරුණු විට විශේෂත්වයක් නැතැයි ද ගම්වල එය භාවිතා කර ඇත්තේ දරට පමණක් යැයි ද එහි අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල් එස් ඩී ක්රිෂ්ණරාජා මහත්මිය පැවැසුවාය. සාමාන්යයෙන් මෙම […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was revealed that a mature plant, endangered crudia zeylanica could also be found at the Henarathgoda botanical gardens and another small plant on the border of the 14th km point on the central expressway, the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) said today. The CEA said it came to light […]
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Sunday, January 31st, 2021
කීර්ති හේවාගොඩ – ගරු ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය — සමුද්රීය පරිසර ආරක්ෂණ අධිකාරිය– වෙරල සංරක්ෂණ සහ වෙරල සම්පත් කලමනාකරන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව—වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙතට, රූමස්සල සංවේදී පාරිසරික කලාපය හරහා අඩි 20 පුලුල් මාර්ගයක් ඉදිකිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපගේ පැමිණිල්ල. —————————————————————– ගාල්ල දිස්ත්රික්කයේ හබරාදුව ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයට අයත් රූමස්සල යනු පාරිසරික ව ,භූ- විද්යාත්මකව සහ එතිහාසිකව ඉතා වැදගත් භූමියකි. එහෙත් මේ වන විට […]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2021
Ashley de Vos Stemming from the advice given by Arahat Mahinda to King Devanampiya Tissa (3 C.BCE), that all beings including the animals in the forest and the birds in the air have a right to live, tradition dictated that all precious resources, are always protected. The thick forest covered hills and mountains, referred to, […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
ප්රවෘත්තී නිවේදනය -නිපුණතා සංවර්ධන, වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන, පර්යේෂණ හා නව නිපැයුම් රාජ්ය අමාත්යාංශය අනාගත ශ්රී ලංකාවට මුහුණපාන්නට වන ප්රධාන අභියෝග අතරින් තීරණාත්මක සංසිද්ධිය වන්නේ බලශක්තියයි. මෙරට සංවර්ධන ක්රියාවලියේදි දැනටමත් ක්රියාත්මක අති දැවැන්ත ව්යාපෘති ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමේදි විදුලිය සැපයීම අභියෝගයට ලක්ව තිබේ. මෙම බලශක්ති උත්පාදනය හා කළමනාකරණයේදී මුහුණදීමට සිදුවන ගැටලු සඳහා ප්රායෝගික විසඳුමක් වන්නේ කෙටිකාලීනව […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2021
RT Documentary Pavla Nikolaevna is a ‘chumworker’, a housewife in the tundra (Thundra is subarctic flat land with permafrost ground). Together with her husband, they continue their family ideal of driving reindeer herds in the far north. Instead of a regular flat this Russian family prefers a chum, a reindeer fur-covered hut. Even in winter, […]
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Thursday, December 31st, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, December 31: One of the most attractive landmarks in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, is the Galle Face Green, a 5-hectare open sea-side field with a promenade running along the water’s edge. Flanked by the colonial-era Galle Face Hotel, built in 1864, in the south, and the more recently put up […]
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
ABC Science By environment reporter Nick Kilvert and Jane Lee for Science Friction As a small child, Shreen Abdul Saroor remembers getting up before dawn with her father to spy on the masses of migratory birds that would visit her island. The birds were on their way down the Central Asian flyway — a migration path that crosses 30 […]
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Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Courtesy The Guardian Navy joins forces with rescuers and volunteers in effort to push pilot whales back into ocean. Volunteers try to push back a stranded short-finned pilot whale on Panadura beach, Sri Lanka. Photograph: AFP/Getty ImagesAgence France-Presse in ColomboMon 2 Nov 2020 17.11 GMT Rescuers and volunteers were racing to save about 100 pilot whales stranded on Sri Lanka’s […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
By Savithri Sellapperumage Courtesy The Diplomat Can Sri Lanka live up to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s environmental commitments? The focus on Sri Lanka’s deforestation and the conservation of forests this year can be traced back to widespread discussions about deforestation in Wilpattu National Park back in 2019. Deforestation in Wanathawillu, Anawilundawa and Sinharaja has been the recent […]
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Friday, October 16th, 2020
Courtesy SPEAR’S Sri Lanka has recovered before, from colonial rule and civil war. As the country’s vital tourism industry prepares to leap back into life, Andrew Harris recalls his pre-lockdown adventure in the land of serendipity Oblivious to the pandemic that was on the way, I had only a darting mongoose, a parading peacock and […]
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