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The world’s a stage for these four new jumping spiders from Sri Lanka

Ifham Nizam 16 Jun 2020

A Sri Lankan rescue center races to save wild patients during lockdown

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Jun 2020

Crediting the lockdown for Sri Lanka’s cleaner air masks the real problem (Commentary)

Lareef Zubair 10 Jun 2020

In lockdown’s calm, glossy ibis finds prime nesting conditions in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Jun 2020

For Sri Lanka’s dwindling leopards, wire snares are the leading killer

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Jun 2020

Think you’ve seen a mermaid? This Sri Lankan scientist sets the record straight

Malaka Rodrigo 4 Jun 2020

In Sri Lanka, bushmeat poachers haven’t let up during lockdown

Malaka Rodrigo 30 May 2020

For Sri Lankans reporting environmental crimes, there’s now an app for that

Malaka Rodrigo 25 May 2020

Aided by weather, Sri Lanka’s lockdown leads to decline in air, sea pollution

Dennis Mombauer 21 May 2020

How a changing climate threatens Sri Lanka’s dragonflies and damselflies (commentary)

Amila Prasanna Sumanapala 19 May 2020

Amid lockdown, Sri Lankans nurture their own oases through home gardening

Malaka Rodrigo 15 May 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 9 May 2020

Researchers miss out on sperm whale superpod in Sri Lanka amid pandemic

Malaka Rodrigo 6 May 2020

Wildlife tourism workers in limbo as Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 shutdown continues

Malaka Rodrigo 5 May 2020

Photos: Up close with the saltwater crocs of Sri Lanka’s Nilwala River

Rajiv Welikala 4 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

Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 lockdown sets wildlife free but raises poaching threat

Malaka Rodrigo 16 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, Sri Lankans find solace in traditional practices

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Apr 2020

In Sri Lanka, gillnets targeting tuna claim dolphin lives

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Apr 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Mar 2020

In Sri Lanka, beguiling bloom of cat’s claw vine conceals potential trouble (commentary)

Jagath Gunawardana 26 Mar 2020

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

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 24 Mar 2020

New assessment shows Sri Lanka’s amphibians being pushed to the brink

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Mar 2020

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

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

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