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Count the birds: Public urged to join global initiative
Published on SundayTimes on 17.02.2019 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190217/news/count-the-birds-public-urged-to-join-global-initiative-336547.html As the annual initiative, Great Backyard Bird Count...
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නොනගතයේ කුරුළු නැරඹුම –අලුත් අවුරුදු නැකත් මායිම් නොකළ පිලිහුඩු දෙමාපියෝ
Sinhala/Tamil new year (Aluth Avurudu) is a main cultural event in Sri Lanka. Inorder to spend a ‘Natureful new year’, I stepped out to enjoy birds in our garden along with my daughter on morning of...
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අලුත් අවුරුදු දා ගෙවත්තට නෑගම් ආ කර පටි කන් බස්සෝ
Collared Scops Owl is probably the most wide spread owl species in Sri Lanka. They are common in home gardens and Jayathri Dias observed a family of owls just a day after the Sinhala/Tamil new year in...
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International scientists to meet in Lanka on tropics crisis
International scientists will meet in Sri Lanka in September to discuss saving life forms in the tropics, where 80 per cent of all species live and where the greatest threats to biodiversity lie....
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ගෙවතු කුරුල්ලන් ගේ දොරට වඩින සමය
From Feb/March to May; lots of garden bird species breed. Observation of these nests (ofcourse with care without disturb them) are an interesting activity that makes you more closer to nature. This...
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වෙසක් සැරසිලි මැද සුවසේ නිදා ගත් බට්ටිච්චා
I first observed that a Tailor Bird sleeps on an ornamental plant hanging from upstairs. The bird continues to sleep on this place upto today (i.e.29th June). Tailor bird puffs its feathers and tuck...
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Tiny orchid with the name of a giant
Published on SundayTimes on 14.04.2019 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190414/news/tiny-orchid-with-the-name-of-a-giant-345337.html April is the month of flowers and there is no better time to announce that...
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Nittaewo – Is it a bear, a monkey or Sri Lanka’s own Hobbit?
Published on SundayTimes on 31.03.2019 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190331/news/is-it-a-bear-a-monkey-or-sri-lankas-own-hobbit-343247.html Purported encounters with Nittaewo, the legendary dwarf men of...
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Deadlier than guns: Explosive bait haunts Sri Lanka’s elephants
Published on Mongabay 20.June.2019 https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/deadlier-than-guns-explosive-bait-haunts-sri-lankas-elephants/ Elephant calf with a damaged mouth trying to drink water (c)...
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Create ocean science ‘champions’ to boost nation’s security
Sri Lanka needs to understand how critical the resources of the ocean are to an island nation’s security and end its centuries’-old apathy about protecting its maritime base, leading scientists told a...
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After a lengthy delay, still no green light for Sri Lanka’s red list
Published on Mongabay on 9 July 2019 https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/after-a-lengthy-delay-still-no-green-light-for-sri-lankas-red-list/ The rediscovery in recent years of species long thought to be...
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දෙවසරක් සපුරණ ‘ගෙවත්තේ ජෛව විවිධත්වය’ලිපි මාලාව
The column ‘Biodiversity of Home Gardens’ that I started on 2017 on Vidusara sinhala science weekly completes 2 years on this World Environment Day. We are so much concern about the beauty of the birds...
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Warrior of Wellassa rebellion lives on in tiny gecko
New Gecko Godagedaras’ Day Gecko – Cnemaspis godagedarai (c) Chen Lee While Keppetipola Disawe is the best-known chieftain who fought in the 1817 Wellassa rebellion against the British, another...
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අනුන්ගේ කැදැලිවල බිත්තර දමන, අවුරුදු නැතත් තවමත් ගී ගයන කොහා…
The Asian Koel is known as messenger of traditional Sinhala/Tamil new year celebrated on April, as the male Koel start singing its beautiful song coincide with new year season. Many believe the koel...
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Crackdown after Sri Lanka bombings may help in fight against blast fishing
Published on Mongabay on 26 June 2019 https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/crackdown-after-sri-lanka-bombings-may-help-in-fight-against-blast-fishing/ Sri Lanka’s fight against the destructive practice...
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Hope rises for threatened Sinharaja jumbos with radio collaring
Geofencing project could save human and elephant lives. Published on SundayTimes on 28.07.2019 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190728/news/deep-in-sinharaja-hope-rises-for-threatened-jumbos-360224.html A...
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‘Made for mating’ giant moth causes stir
Published on SundayTimes on 04.08.2019 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190804/news/made-for-mating-giant-moth-causes-stir-361274.html A huge, butterfly-like creature sitting calmly inside a house in...
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Ranger’s death triggers call to recognise job risks in jungle
A wildlife ranger was tragically killed this week when an elephant whose gunshot wound he was trying to treat suddenly turned and attacked him. Wildlife Guard B.M.C.K. Basnayake was the second wildlife...
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Would CITES listing help threatened sea cucumbers due to overexploitation?
Published on Mongabay on 10.08.2019 https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/sri-lanka-pushes-for-protection-of-sea-cucumbers-amid-overexploitation/ With fewer species of sea cucumbers being recorded in...
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Out of the blue, a visitor is blown in by the monsoon
Published on SundayTimes on 18.08.2019 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190818/news/out-of-the-blue-a-visitor-is-blown-in-by-the-monsoon-363649.html An unusually large bird found this week on Muthu Panthiya...
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