Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera explains that China intended to disperse the monkeys between 1,000 zoos across the country, taking it as a solution to the animals destroying crops.
By Douglas B. Ranasinghe excerpted from from the authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann Soon after their marriage, Thilo and Mae began to make extensive journeys through the country, during weekends and holidays. Once, on one of their first, they found themselves at Arugam Bay late in the afternoon. The old resthouse on the dunes consisted […]
by Walter. R. Gooneratne (Continued from last week) About 5 pm we witnessed something we had never seen before. The river came alive with fish, mainly godaya or grey mullet, dashing upriver, and sometimes leaping in the air, followed by a shoal of koduwa or estuary perch (Latef calcarifer) in a frenzy of feeding. Behind […]