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An Additional Chief Secretary (ACS)-rank officer submits a report to the govt in June 2021 on illegal felling of 24,777 eucalyptus, sheesham and kikar trees along the 800 km-long Bist Doab canal. But it took top functionaries of the Forest Department more than a year (October 2022) to order necessar

The bourbon company is investing in trees and other crop species to ensure the whiskey sectors viability for decades to come.

By Ifham Nizam Lead scientist on Molecular Biology and Plant Taxonomy Dr. Nilanthi Rajapakse of the Department of Wildlife Conservation and her team have discovered a new species of Nelu, Strobilanthes glandulataNilanthi (Acanthaceae) based on morphological and molecular data, from the Knuckles Forest Reserve. Morphological and DNA evidence were used to distinguish the new plant […]

By Ifham Nizam Sri Lanka could file cases in Singapore over the X-Press Pearl disaster, as the owners of the shipping company were based there, or in the United Kingdom as the relevant insurance company was in London, Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) Chairman/Senior Attorney at Law Ravindranath Dabare told The Island.President Ranil Wickremesinghe has […]

A delegation of the China Development Bank (CDB) is currently in Sri Lanka.The delegation has met the State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe and held discussions on debt related concerns. “This is a working level delegation and such communications by different Chinese financial institutions with Sri Lankan officials have taken place since April,” a Chinese […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita A private steel and cement manufacturer was planning to excavate 256 acres of the Pettigala Mountain, a part of the Galbokkayaya Mountain range, to extract calcite, Sajeewa Chamikara of Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) said.Calcite is used as a building material, abrasive, agricultural soil treatment, construction aggregate, pigment, pharmaceutical, and […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita A train running from Kandy to Colombo derailed between Peradeniya and Pilimathalawa stations yesterday morning. This was the 43rd derailment this year, General Secretary of the Railway Station Masters Union Kasun Chamara Jayasekara said. “The express train derailed at 4.47 am. This affected traffic along the line in the morning. The last […]

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Activists rallied at the Forest Service Region 3 headquarters in Albuquerque today to call on federal agencies and the Biden administration to enact meaningful solutions to the climate crisis, including protecting carbon-storing mature and old-growth trees from logging and ending fossil fuel extraction.

Concerns over ecology, rights of the indigenous communities and the tectonic volatility and disaster vulnerability of the island have been disregarded.

The President recalled the struggle of tribal society in conserving and protecting forest areas during British rule