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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

Sea turtles under threat as Indian government weighs development in Andaman Islands

Rosamma Thomas 14 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

Did you know that stump-tailed macaques can go bald?

Romi Castagnino 23 Mar 2021

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

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Mar 2021

The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 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

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

On World Tiger Day, let’s recommit to the goal of doubling wild tiger populations by 2022 (commentary)

Stuart Chapman 28 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

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