Silently emerging from the shadows of the rainforest, the lone elephant stepped gently onto the rain-soaked earth, leaving deep footprints in the muddy ground. It paused to feed on a banana tree ...

Furthermore, IUCN has noted that the boundary re-survey of Sinharaja has been completed and visible permanent boundary posts are being fixed by the Forest Department, so that the protection of ...

Then the Orange-billed Babblers start steering the flock forward. The Sinharaja rainforest, as its name implies, receives plenty of rain. This feature hinders birds from locating food and therefore ...

By Mongabay.com For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major ...

Currently, a large portion of the forest system in Sinharaja has been fragmented due to hotel construction activities and mechanised mining, posing significant threats to the endemic species ...

At its twenty-fourth extraordinary session in November 2000, the Bureau had requested that the Centre and IUCN monitor developments with regard to the resolution of the dispute over land reclaimed by ...