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 …
controversial bill: A new bill that seeks to set up Sri Lanka's National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol has kicked off a huge controversy. The bill aims at reducing consumption and bans advertisements of these products. But the brewers, tobacco manufacturers, retailers and marketers have petitioned the Supreme Court against …
january 1, 2006, ushered in the new South Asian Free Trade Area (safta) pact. This paves the way for free trade of goods among the seven countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (saarc). Pakistan and Sri Lanka were yet to complete their ratification. The least developed countries …
A year after Sri Lanka's worst natural disaster, many victims of the tsunami languish in makeshift shelters while an inefficient government bureaucracy and the country's poor utilisation of foreign aid continues to compound the crisis. Experts reckon that at the current rate, it will take at least four years for …
The almost two decade civil conflict in Sri Lanka has radically altered the economic and social conditions of the people in the north, with profound impacts on the environment, biological diversity and natural resources. Habitat destruction and the accompanying loss of wildlife are among the most common and far-reaching impacts …
Being the commercial and administrative capital cities of Sri Lanka Colombo and Sri Jayawardhanapura and their suburbs accommodate many industries, residences and commercial and administration institutions and infrastructure. As a result this urban area has become one of the most polluted areas in Sri Lanka. This study covered different climatic …
Sri Lanka is identified as one of the biodiversity hotspots in Asia. Although many of the endemic species are found in the hill country, the low country dry zone is home to some of the most seriously threatened species of wildlife. Following the protracted armed conflict, it appears that defaunation …
This publication takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyses the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of …
• A group of 60 on horsebacks who call themselves The Nomads have undertaken a tour of the world to promote organic farming and complete respect for the environment. • Every Time I See the Sea: Life After the Tsunami , an interactive exhibition of photographs and footage from India …
THE draft national AIDS policy presented by the Sri Lankan government has discussed the critical question of the media's influence and relation to the rights of HIV/AIDS patients. It has warned those violating ethics and responsible reporting in relation to HIV/AIDS would be "liable to pay damages to those affected …
Averse to law: The Afghanistan government, along with the UN, has rejected a call of experts to legalise cultivation of opium crops in the country. Eighty seven per cent of the world's opium is produced in Afghanistan and illegal heroin trade is rampant. Senlis Council, a France-based group of experts, …
sri lanka is to export some 12,000 tea plants to Iran under a bilateral agreement, an issue that has raised the ire of environmentalists who say the move will jeopardise the country's tea trade. Sri Lanka is the world's biggest tea auction and trading centre and tea is the country's …
sri lanka's business community, which forced the government to suspend a ban on the import of genetically modified (gm) food in 2001, is now supporting regulation of gm food imports. In May 2001, the country's health ministry had announced a ban on the import of gm food, covering 21 types …
sri lanka's environmentalists are alarmed at the recent alleged export of a large consignment of a threatened medicinal plant to Japan for use in drug manufacture. The kothala himbutu creeper (Salacia reticulata Wight), which is scarce and takes very long to grow, has been used for generations to fight diabetes. …
The uncertainty clouding the fates of thousands of tsunami victims in areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (ltte) deepened with a July 15, 2005, order of Sri Lanka's Supreme Court (sc). The sc blocked a deal between the government and the rebel group to share billions of …
even as it scrambles to enforce internationally recognised standards for its agricultural exports, Sri Lanka has requested for a six-month extension of the eu 's new food hygiene rules on imports, to be effective from January 1, 2006. Tea, the country's top agricultural export, is expected to be the worst …
Blunder tourism: Six months after the tsunami disaster, the inhabitants of Arugam Bay on Sri Lanka's east coast are protesting a government move ostensibly aimed at creating a safety buffer zone against any future disaster of the kind. The government is reclaiming their land on the ground that any construction …
sri lanka and India might be on a collision course over the dredging of the Palk Strait, which separates the two countries, after the Indian government approved the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project ( see Down To Earth,
Before paper, palm leaf or Ola was the most popular material used for writing and painting in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand and Indonesia. In India, they have been used for more than 2,000 years. Scribes recorded much of India's literary and scientific heritage on these, etching letters carefully into the …
Faced with tonnes of waste material from furniture manufacture, Moratuwa, on Colombo's southern outskirts, has come up with a unique solution. Municipal authorities have returned the problem to source, asking furniture companies themselves to develop a product using wood waste. Moratuwa is home to Sri Lanka's best carpenters, with 4,000 …
