The Somawathiya National Park has hit the headlines. It is not for the spread of nature or the sanctuary for nature within it, but the illegal land grab of 1,000 acres that has now moved on to 3,000 acres. Will this be the limit? Somawathiya is not alone. There is Sinharaja, Sigiriya and many more reserves threatened by the land grab forces of today. Just keep thinking of what the Defence Secretary Kamal Guneratne has said about Divisional Secretaries issuing licences for clearing forest land, and the need to stop this practice. When the Defence Secretary of the country, who has a military background, too, has to make such an admission, we are clearly in a new war situation. It is a war being waged against nature – the forests that have been preserved under our laws on Fauna and Flora Protection, now moving to political destruction on the dictatorial power of the 20th Amendment, and the rise of crooked political forces whose desire for profit is the Hallmark of Rajavasala Governance.