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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X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Aug 2021

In Sri Lanka, biologists and divers build a Facebook for sea turtles

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Aug 2021

Next stop, the sea: Sri Lanka’s old buses are a new home for marine life

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Jul 2021

Tallying the toll on marine life from the X-Press Pearl sinking (commentary)

Ranil P. Nanayakkara 17 Jul 2021

Dugong deaths in Sri Lanka lend urgency to calls for stronger protections

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Jul 2021

Sri Lanka seeks peace with pachyderms as human-elephant conflicts escalate

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Jul 2021

‘Abnormally high’ turtle deaths after acid-laden ship sinks off Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jul 2021

Sri Lanka banks on the ocean to chart a green path toward a blue economy

Dennis Mombauer 28 Jun 2021

Sri Lanka zoo lion contracts COVID-19 as reports of animal infections rise

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Jun 2021

Sri Lankans find a digital helping hand for baby birds fallen from nests

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Jun 2021

Slick caught on satellite image around sunken ship not fuel oil, Sri Lanka says

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2021

Sri Lanka braces for fallout of sunken cargo ship’s toxic payload

Dennis Mombauer 16 Jun 2021

No oil spill reported, but Sri Lanka braces for worst after X-Press Pearl sinks

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jun 2021

With fire contained, Sri Lanka faces plastic pellet problem from stricken ship

Malaka Rodrigo 31 May 2021

Genetic diversity of Sri Lanka’s ‘spa fish’ highlights need for informed conservation

Malaka Rodrigo 25 May 2021

In Sri Lanka, here be dragonflies and damselflies like nowhere else (Commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 18 May 2021

Sri Lanka to ban palm oil imports, raze plantations over environmental concerns

Malaka Rodrigo 9 May 2021

Death of a Sri Lankan icon highlights surge in elephant electrocutions

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Apr 2021

Farmers move to occupy a critical elephant corridor in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Apr 2021

Managing risk: How Sri Lankan farmers address climate threats

Dennis Mombauer 24 Mar 2021

Hope blooms for an ‘extinct’ Sri Lankan tree that reemerged under threat

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Mar 2021

Sri Lanka’s budding biologists get their science on with iNaturalist

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Mar 2021

Sri Lanka replanting bid begins after minister is held liable for deforestation

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Feb 2021

Sri Lanka activists decry downgrade of non-protected ‘other’ forests by government

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Dec 2020

Sri Lanka to the U.K.: Here’s your waste back. And there’s more to come

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Dec 2020

Sri Lankans save pilot whales in epic rescue after mass stranding

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Nov 2020

For lonely elephant Kaavan, music therapy helps prepare for move to sanctuary

Malaka Rodrigo 2 Nov 2020

Lots of suspects but few leads in mystery sea turtle deaths in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Oct 2020

Deaths and media-driven panic threaten human-jackal coexistence in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Oct 2020

Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters highlights need for preparedness

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Oct 2020

The vanishing trails of Sri Lanka’s sloth bears (Commentary)

Ranil P. Nanayakkara 26 Sep 2020

Sri Lankan conservation law and the framework for ethical science research (Commentary)

Jagath Gunawardana 25 Aug 2020

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