Dilrukshi Handunnetti

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 20 Sep 2024

Photos: Sri Lanka’s Kalametiya lagoon draws tourists to see native and migrant birds

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Jul 2023

Green and gossamer, and not gone: A Sri Lankan dragonfly flits back to life

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 3 Dec 2022

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 24 Apr 2022

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Jun 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 9 May 2020

From a Sri Lankan rainforest, a new species of orchid blooms

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2020

Fighting COVID-19 with a precious resource: Q&A with Kusum Athukorala, Sri Lanka’s ‘Woman in Water’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 28 Apr 2020

Panic buying amid pandemic drives scarcity in medicinal herbs in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 21 Apr 2020

New snake discovery in Sri Lanka is latest twist in slow-burning mystery

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Mar 2020

From vegetable plots in a Sri Lankan swamp, a forgotten eel emerges

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 24 Mar 2020

Lack of farmer training worsens Sri Lanka’s growing human-wildlife conflict

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Mar 2020

For Sri Lanka’s pangolins, forests are ideal — but rubber farms will do too

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Feb 2020

Isolated by civil war, Sri Lanka’s Jaffna proves to be a herp haven

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Feb 2020

As 2019 ends, reptile-rich Sri Lanka delivers three more new gecko species

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Jan 2020

Ancient Sri Lankans used ‘flexible’ quartz tools to hunt primates in rainforests

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 20 Dec 2019

More discoveries, more threats for Sri Lanka’s dragonflies and damselflies

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 19 Nov 2019

‘Science prevails’ as suspension of award for herbicide research is reversed

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 16 Nov 2019

Global trafficking threat catches up to Sri Lanka’s endangered pangolins

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Nov 2019

Less force, more kindness as Sri Lanka tries to defuse human-elephant conflict

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Oct 2019

As birds winter in Sri Lanka, one enthusiast makes sure their memory stays

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 25 Oct 2019

Photos: Meet the surprisingly diverse day geckos of Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Oct 2019

Sri Lanka wields mangroves, its tsunami shield, against climate change

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Sep 2019

New gecko species named in honor of Sri Lankan herpetologist Anslem de Silva

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Sep 2019

Sri Lanka scientists stand by naming of new geckos amid nationalist criticism

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 10 Sep 2019

What’s in a name? For Sri Lanka’s newest geckos, a political firestorm

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 27 Aug 2019

Discovery of a metallic-blue tarantula bolsters case for trade protection

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Aug 2019

Microplastic waste fouls up beaches on Sri Lanka’s southern tourism coast

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Jul 2019

The frog and the university: Meet the niche new species from Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Jul 2019

Casualty of peace? Study shows rise in deforestation after conflicts

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 2 Jul 2019

An ill-deserved reputation threatens Sri Lanka’s ‘secretive snake’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 28 Jun 2019

CITES to move wildlife trade summit from Colombo to Geneva this August

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 13 Jun 2019

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