COLOMBO — Environmental activists in Sri Lanka are celebrating the end of a 2020 decree that left the island’s nonprotected forests more vulnerable to agriculture and development projects.

A 2020 government decree that transferred administrative control of nonprotected forests in Sri Lanka to local governments has been formally revoked by the country’s new government. The move ...

Uva Pathanbima, which includes the Nilgala Forest, one of the four unique ecological zones native to Sri Lanka, has yet to be ...

Joseph Anton, a Catholic, says his life's mission is to save mangroves in the nation’s largest saline coastal peat bog ...

Don’t be mistaken in thinking the frogmouth is, as its name suggests, an amphibian. This animal is actually a bird found in the dense tropical forests of Sri Lanka and parts of India. The name ...

Hyderabad - A flying snake, known to be endemic to Sri Lanka, has been sighted in Andhra Pradesh’s Seshachalam forests, forest officials and researchers said. According to researchers ...