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

Jagath Gunawardana 25 Aug 2020

To flourish, Sri Lanka’s whale-watching industry must operate responsibly (commentary)

Ranil P. Nanayakkara 5 Aug 2020

Kaavan, a Sri Lankan elephant living in captivity in a Pakistani zoo to be set free

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Jul 2020

New assessment shows 74% of Sri Lanka’s freshwater fish threatened with extinction

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Jul 2020

Photo Essay: In search of Sri Lanka’s vanishing tuskers

Rajiv Welikala 30 Jul 2020

Sri Lanka’s hourglass frog is only an hourglass frog 77% of the time

Ifham Nizam 29 Jul 2020

In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2020

Problem pachyderms? ‘Geofencing’ helps reduce Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jul 2020

Twins highlight world’s largest Asian elephant gathering in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Jul 2020

Sri Lanka: Rich in biodiversity, and human-wildlife conflict

Dennis Mombauer 22 Jul 2020

Brutus or Caesar? Now visitors can identify individual leopards at Sri Lanka park

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Jul 2020

Deer droppings help researchers understand sambar antler development

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Jul 2020

Shanthi, world’s most studied elephant, dies at Washington’s National Zoo

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jul 2020

Civil war didn’t hurt this Sri Lankan mangrove forest, but shrimp farming might

Malaka Rodrigo 7 Jul 2020

In Sri Lanka, the hunt is on for alien fish in native lakes

Malaka Rodrigo 6 Jul 2020

An intrusive killer scorpion points the way to six new species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Jun 2020

Ancient Sri Lankans built canals. Their legacy today? A new type of forest

Malaka Rodrigo 22 Jun 2020

Sri Lanka reopens national parks post-lockdown with strict guidelines

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2020

A Sri Lankan herp mystery solved: The snake species that was two

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Jun 2020

In Sri Lanka, crop-destroying insects follow the COVID-19 pandemic

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Jun 2020

The world’s a stage for these four new jumping spiders from Sri Lanka

Ifham Nizam 16 Jun 2020

A Sri Lankan rescue center races to save wild patients during lockdown

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Jun 2020

Crediting the lockdown for Sri Lanka’s cleaner air masks the real problem (Commentary)

Lareef Zubair 10 Jun 2020

In lockdown’s calm, glossy ibis finds prime nesting conditions in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Jun 2020

For Sri Lanka’s dwindling leopards, wire snares are the leading killer

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Jun 2020

Think you’ve seen a mermaid? This Sri Lankan scientist sets the record straight

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jun 2020

In Sri Lanka, bushmeat poachers haven’t let up during lockdown

Malaka Rodrigo 30 May 2020

For Sri Lankans reporting environmental crimes, there’s now an app for that

Malaka Rodrigo 25 May 2020

Aided by weather, Sri Lanka’s lockdown leads to decline in air, sea pollution

Dennis Mombauer 21 May 2020

How a changing climate threatens Sri Lanka’s dragonflies and damselflies (commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 19 May 2020

Amid lockdown, Sri Lankans nurture their own oases through home gardening

Malaka Rodrigo 15 May 2020

Sri Lanka’s marbled rock frog may not be on brink of extinction, modeling suggests

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 9 May 2020

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