Dilrukshi Handunnetti

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Dilrukshi Handunnetti is a Colombo based journalist and lawyer. Trained as an investigative journalist, her reporting covers a range of topics. Dilrukshi has won local and international awards for excellence in journalism and collaborates across South Asia.

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Ancient eco-friendly pilgrimage brings modern threats to Sri Lanka wildnerness

Predatory snakehead fish poses invasive threat after sighting in Sri Lanka reservoir

As iconic wild leopard ages in Sri Lanka, debate about human intervention ensues

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection

Twin ship disasters in India threaten widespread pollution on Sri Lankan coasts

Mounting risks due to climate change threaten Sri Lanka’s endemic species

After 15 years, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court blocks road upgrade in national park

Sri Lanka’s golden jackals reveal importance of urban wetlands for wildlife

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold

Blue whale decline in Sri Lanka tied to climate and human activity

Indian trawlers leave Sri Lankan small-scale fishers a ravaged, bereft sea

Award-winning film highlights lasting damage from X-Press Pearl disaster in Sri Lanka

Mysterious sloth bear deaths raise alarm at Sri Lanka’s largest national park

A century later, a rare mushroom with a curious shape emerges in Sri Lanka

Climate change spikes wildfire risk in Sri Lanka

The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Sri Lanka communities left gasping for climate mitigation support

In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts

Sri Lanka calls for five-minute surveys to identify crop-raiding animals

As Sri Lanka’s rail tracks continue to claim elephant lives, experts suggest solutions

India’s Adani withdraws from controversial Sri Lanka wind power project

Study highlights effects of habitat fragmentation on Sri Lankan specialist birds

Sunken ships in Sri Lanka’s Colombo attract more fish than coral reefs

Seeking solutions in Indigenous knowledge: Interview with the Maldives’ Mohamed Nasheed

Relief in Sri Lanka as key threat to nonprotected forests is repealed

In Sri Lanka, election day is time for firecrackers — to ward off elephants

Climate change could threaten newly described ‘shiny’ North American bees

Sri Lanka completes first elephant census since 2011 amid uncertainty

Sri Lanka’s blue carbon ecosystems at risk as government seeks way out of economic crisis

Newly identified shorebird species takes its name from Hanuman, a mythical Hindu ape god

As Sri Lanka floods swell with climate change, so does human-crocodile conflict

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