Furthermore, IUCN has noted that the boundary re-survey of Sinharaja has been completed and visible permanent boundary posts are being fixed by the Forest Department, so that the protection of ...

“Whenever I entered the Sinharaja reserve, I was overawed by the cathedral hush of the forest and the sheer immensity and grandeur of those canopy trees. They were monumental unbranched trunks, rising ...

Currently, a large portion of the forest system in Sinharaja has been fragmented due to hotel construction activities and mechanised mining, posing significant threats to the endemic species ...

comprising then President of the Forest Research Institute of India, R.C. Ghosh, retired Treasury Secretary R. Rajendra, Prof. B.A. Abeywickrema and Neville Karunatilleke of the Central Bank to make ...

A rare population of leucistic, or partially white, purple-faced langurs near Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve has attracted ecotourism interest, even as monkeys in general are perceived by ...

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 ...