The Sinharaja Forest Reserve in southern Sri Lanka will be expanded fourfold through the incorporate of surrounding forests into the protected area. The new reserve will span 36,000 hectares ...

Sinharaja Forest Reserve is important to us because it is the most researched forest in Sri Lanka. The plant or vegetation studies done in the forest include non timber forest resource, primary and ...

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 ...

For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. These white ...

It was originally declared a forest reserve in 1875, designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1978, and a World Heritage Site in 1988. UNESCO’s World Heritage Center describes it as follows: “Located in ...

In their midst lay the Sinharaja Forest Reserve and the Sinharaja Proposed Forest Reserve ... in a single goal and acting together under one umbrella for conservation in Sri Lanka. Many NGOs supported ...

Sri Lanka's rich biodiversity hotspot,Kanneliya forest reserve is in danger due to felling ... rainforests in Sri Lanka other than the Sinharaja forest. Director, ECT, Sajeeva Chamikara told ...

(Mongabay) For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction. These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered ...

Environmental activist Nisantha Gajasinghe says Sinharaja Forest is home to flora and fauna unique to Sri Lanka. The forest system has been instrumental in Sri Lanka being named among the 34 highest ...

At its twenty-fourth extraordinary session in November 2000, the Bureau had requested that the Centre and IUCN monitor developments with regard to the resolution of the dispute over land reclaimed by ...