Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
With coral reefs as their tea leaves, scientists are forecasting that in the next several decades there will be another major earthquake along the Sunda fault off Sumatra like the one that spawned the catastrophic tsunami of December 26, 2004. Kerry Sieh, formerly of the California Institute of Technology and …
This paper examines several aspects of the rehabilitation and reconstruction program that followed the 2004 tsunami in Asia. Almost 230,000 people died in the disaster. It focus on two main issues: aid delivery and reconstruction policy following the disaster. Although issues such as immediate relief activities in disaster management and …
The Sustainable Livelihoods Enhancement and Diversification (SLED) approach has been developed by Integrated Marine Management Ltd (IMM) through building on the lessons of past livelihoods research projects as well as worldwide experience in livelihood improvement and participatory development practice. It aims to provide a set of guidelines for development and …
Coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change. They are affected by changes in sea-level and wave height, as well as changes in weather patterns. Some families with home gardens were better able to recover from the tsunami in Sri Lanka than others. Such resilience often depended on how well …
Owing to its enormous construction and maintenance costs, the management of wastewater in many urban centres of developing countries via a centralised wastewater management approach is very difficult. Often, untreated wastewater is directly discharged into adjacent natural water courses, causing a grave threat to both public health and the aquatic …
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Patali Champika Ranawaka said though one billion rupees had been invested on conservation of the environment the forests, the environment gave a return worth 59 billion rupees annually. The new yardstick of measuring development was the prevention of environmental pollution. "Though superficially we were …
The Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL) has launched an annual nationwide program to assess and study the distribution and presence of birds in Sri Lanka aiming to increase the awareness of the public about our feathered friends. The program is named Bird Counting Month. Participants simply need to …
Nearly 6,000 farmer families living in Mahapitiya, Madahapola, Bambaragalayaya, Dummeeya, Madaulpotha, Nikawehera, Imihaminnegama, Makulpotha, Kosgahaela, Pahalagama, Thalwehera and Halmillewa in the Polpithigama divisional secretariat area are facing a wild elephant threat. The jumbos that roam into the villages have killed several farmers and caused serious injuries to several others. More …
Forty two people from 15 districts died of rabies last year according to the National Anti-Rabies Unit of the Health Ministry. Highest number of deaths, 10, was reported from the Batticaloa district. Kurunegala 7, Puttalam and Galle 5 each, Anuradhapura 3, Kalutara, Kandy and Badulla 2 each, Kegalle, Nuwara-Eliya, Matara, …
Minister of Nation Building S. M. Chandrasena said his Ministry had been allocated Rs 24,000 million for 2009 and Rs 6,000 million had been set aside for community driven livelihood development and the infrastructural development in the Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts. The Ministry of Nation Building was created by President …
The government has launched an ambitious Rs. 11 billion project to divert the waters of the Menik Ganga, Deduru Oya and the Kumbukkan Oya, which go to waste by ending up in the ocean, to enable 18,000 farmer families to cultivate 54,000 acres of paddy land during both Yala and …
Sri Lanka will adopt methods implemented in Cuba to prevent the spread of mosquito borne diseases. This would initially cover preventive measures to eradicate leptospirosis (rat fever), dengue and malaria by eradication of breeding places, the Health Ministry said. Healthcare Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told The Island that the …
The Kerawalapitiya combined cycle power plant to be commissioned in the first week of December will provide electricity at a unit cost of Rs. 14, West Coast Company Managing Director U.D. Jayawardene said. This is a major victory which disproved certain recent reports which predicted that a unit of electricity …
The National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) plans to construct 12,500 housing units at a cost of Rs. 500 million under the "Jana Sevana" District housing project for the rural community NHDA Chairman Mohammed Rafeek said. He said that the Treasury has promised to allocate Rs. 200 million while Rs. 300 …
The National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) plans to construct 12,500 housing units at a cost of Rs. 500 million under the "Jana Sevana" District housing project for the rural community NHDA Chairman Mohammed Rafeek said. He said that the Treasury has promised to allocate Rs. 200 million while Rs. 300 …
Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday announced that the Vienna convention has provided a sum of US$ 490 million for the protection of the ozone layer. Minister Ranawaka made this announcement at a felicitation ceremony organized by the parliament to felicitate him on his election as the President of the …
The ministers of the SAARC countries have signed the Delhi Declaration on conclusion of the third South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-III) on Friday with a call for according national priority to sanitation, said a spokesman of the Ministry of Environment here on Saturday. The conference was held from November …
