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In reporting on COVID-19, the front line is the screen in front of you (Commentary)

Amantha Perera 19 Mar 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Mar 2020

‘Fake market’: Red panda study finds no real demand behind rise in poaching

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2020

Muduga leaping frog is first new member of its genus found in over a century

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2020

Bid to get ‘aquatic wild meat’ off the menu and under protection

Edward Carver 28 Feb 2020

When disinformation is a bigger threat than the coronavirus (commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 18 Feb 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Feb 2020

Leopard lens: Looking for Sri Lanka’s charismatic big cat (commentary)

Nishantha Kothalawala 14 Feb 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Feb 2020

Sri Lanka’s divine pests: Peafowl problem calls for human action (Commentary)

A.A. Thasun Amarasinghe 27 Jan 2020

Unknown saviors of the environment: Thirty-five men create a forest from barren land

Gurvinder Singh 24 Jan 2020

Mass tree planting along India’s Cauvery River has scientists worried

Nanditha Chandraprakash 22 Jan 2020

India’s yak herders face the end of ancient tradition in warming Himalayas

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 17 Jan 2020

What is needed to keep Sri Lanka’s leopards roaming free? (Commentary)

Jagath Gunawardana 17 Jan 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Jan 2020

2019: The year Sri Lanka’s stunning new species came to light (Commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 6 Jan 2020

Balancing short and long term interests vital for Sri Lanka in 2020 (Commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 31 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 20 Dec 2019

Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja rainforest reserve to be quadrupled in size

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Dec 2019

The Sri Lankan legume: Extinct, rediscovered, and now at risk again (commentary)

Jagath Gunawardana 11 Dec 2019

Catching fish to feed fish: Report details ‘unsustainable’ fishmeal and oil industry

Monica Evans 4 Dec 2019

As nesting season begins, Sri Lanka’s olive ridley turtles face myriad threats

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Dec 2019

Nepal won its first climate grant; now comes the hard work of making it count

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Nov 2019

South Korea funding coal plants overseas that would be banned at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Nov 2019

Elephant seal native to Antarctica spotted for first time in tropical Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Nov 2019

Rare fish-eating crocodile confirmed nesting in southwest Nepal after 37 years

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 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

Mussel species that invaded Southeast Asian waters now appears in India

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2019

India’s Ganga River dolphins are being shouted down by noisy boats

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Nov 2019

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 Nov 2019

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