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 environmental policy failures helped fuel people power revolution

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jul 2022

In a former conflict zone in Sri Lanka, a world rich in corals thrives

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Jul 2022

In Sri Lanka, a waterbird flips the parenting paradigm on its head

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Jul 2022

The curious case of the Sri Lankan national flower that wasn’t

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2022

In Sri Lankan waters, endangered but unprotected rays encounter a killing field

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jun 2022

Report sums up wealth of Sri Lanka’s biodiversity — and the threats it faces

Malaka Rodrigo 7 Jun 2022

Study: Breeding adaptations help tree frogs thrive in different climates

Malaka Rodrigo 18 May 2022

Sri Lanka’s environmentalists brace for economic meltdown’s toll on nature

Malaka Rodrigo 3 May 2022

For Sri Lanka’s crows, following the trash is all part of the hustle

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Apr 2022

Shining a light on Sri Lanka’s little-studied pangolins: Q&A with Priyan Perera

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 24 Apr 2022

Sri Lanka grapples with the problem of its fishers plundering waters abroad

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Apr 2022

Poor waste management turns dump sites into death traps for Sri Lanka’s elephants

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Mar 2022

Photos: On Colombo’s outskirts, an urban birding paradise flourishes

Chandani Kirinde 9 Mar 2022

New photo guide is most comprehensive yet on Sri Lanka’s amphibians

Malaka Rodrigo 15 Feb 2022

Burnt pellets complicate impact of plastic spill off Sri Lanka, study finds

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Dec 2021

New study reveals globe-trotting pedigree of South Asian songbirds

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Nov 2021

Jaw bombs, the deadliest threat to Sri Lanka’s elephants, are scaling up

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Nov 2021

Outcry in Sri Lanka as suspected elephant kidnappers get to keep the animals

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Nov 2021

Follow the butterfly: Rediscovery of ‘extinct’ plants highlights Sri Lanka’s new red list

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Oct 2021

Forest fragmentation split up this lizard’s population. It’s no longer the same

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Sep 2021

Seaweed farming offers a boost for Sri Lanka’s ‘blue economy’ ambitions

Dennis Mombauer 13 Sep 2021

Sri Lanka tagging program traces little-known paths of migratory birds

Malaka Rodrigo 6 Sep 2021

A ‘sleeping beauty’ awakens to join Sri Lanka’s list of endemic plants

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2021

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

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