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Wildlife trade summit may move to Geneva amid Colombo security concerns

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 May 2019

Extreme weather puts traditional livelihoods in peril in Sri Lanka, studies warn

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 17 May 2019

An urban ‘butterfly experience’ in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 May 2019

Reptile haven of Sri Lanka yields up new species of rough-sided snake

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 11 May 2019

In Sri Lanka, a tiny new orchid bears an elephant’s name

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2019

How India’s shrub frogs crossed a bridge to Sri Lanka – and changed forever

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 1 May 2019
Sri Lanka Green Pit Viper

Study documents how Sri Lanka’s protected reptiles are traded as pets

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Apr 2019

Sri Lanka calls for increased protection for endemic lizards

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 18 Apr 2019

A fishy translocation highlights dangers of ‘taxonomic inflation’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 16 Apr 2019

Cloud seeding bears no rain in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 12 Apr 2019

Putting policy into practice to clean up South Asia’s dirty air (commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 26 Mar 2019

Sri Lanka’s biodiversity on show: Q & A with tourism and wildlife minister John Amaratunga

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Mar 2019

Sri Lanka’s new ‘green tax’ not a hit with drivers or environmentalists

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 14 Mar 2019

Glyphosate’s kidney disease link: More science, less politics (commentary)

Nalaka Gunawardene 5 Mar 2019

Sri Lanka to put its biodiversity in the spotlight at global trade summit

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 3 Mar 2019

Sri Lanka scientist blames industry as award for herbicide research is axed

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 28 Feb 2019

Sri Lanka gets its first data-based elephant distribution map

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Feb 2019

New ‘goblin spiders’ from Sri Lanka named after Enid Blyton characters

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2018

Photos: Meet the 2018 ‘Green Oscars’ winners

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2018

Agroforestry bolsters biodiversity and villages in Sri Lanka

Chandni Navalkha 29 Mar 2018

More than 300 smuggled tortoises seized in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 17 May 2017

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Asian elephant herds lack clear matriarchs, strict hierarchies: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Oct 2016

Leopards and landmines: Post-war carnivore research in Sri Lanka

Sanjiv Fernando 14 Sep 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Sri Lanka set to become first nation to protect all mangroves

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2016

Sri Lanka crushes and destroys over 350 ivory tusks

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Jan 2016

Environmentalists win ‘landmark’ case against biofuel project in Sri Lanka

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2015

As mangroves disappear at ‘an alarming rate,’ conservationists urge more protection

Apoorva Joshi 4 Jun 2015

Sri Lanka becomes first country to completely protect mangroves

Apoorva Joshi 4 Jun 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

On track to ‘go beyond the critical point’: Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip

Janaki Lenin 15 Jul 2014

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