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 …
Jan 20, Colombo: Vegetable farmers in Sri Lanka's North Central Province have taken to the streets demanding compensation from the authorities.Soy farmers in the Galenbidunuwewa have resorted to street marches and protests demanding the Agriculture Ministry to pay the compensation that was promised to them for failed crops. The farmers …
Puducherry citizens inspired to reclaim its beaches: Chief Secretary. In the environment movement, more time is being spent on identifying the problems and not enough on governance and improving the decision making, said Sunita Narain, Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment (India). Now, everyone whether they are …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, officially launched a new, hi-tech information system that promises to enhance water management in the South Asian country. The Sri Lanka Water Resources Information System, developed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), provides facts, figures and maps on trends in water availability use and quality for …
The residents of Embilipitiya held a protest against the releasing of garbage in the vicinity of the Chandrika Wewa by the Embilipitiya Pradeshiya Sabha. They say that the garbage collected from the city limits and the outskirts of Embilipitiya are being released near the river. Residents say this causes environment …
Officers of the Health Ministry, the Epidemiology Unit and other institutions under the purview of the ministry conducted a special inspection for dengue breeding sites in the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia areas with the assistance of the Police and Armed Forces, a ministry spokesman said. Over 90 percent of schools located in …
The South Asia convention on Coastal Management convention jointly organised by Centre for Science and Environment and Pondicherry-based PondyCAN identified the need for the South Asian countries to share experiences and approaches and the need to learn from each other. RELATED CONTENT A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and …
Defining and Demarcating Coastal zones in Sri Lanka Procedure, Challenges and What needs to be done? - a presentation by Dr. Anil Premaratne at South Asian Convention on Coastal Management, Puducherry, January 19-21, 2014. Read more: http://www.cseindia.org/userfiles/India%20Pondichery.pdf
The government of Sri Lanka in order to conserve plants native to the Northern Province is looking at setting up a botanical garden in the North. Botanical Gardens and Public Entertainment Minister Jayaratne Herath said that the Northern botanical garden will be set up in the Kilinochchi area and will …
The government will initiate a project to protect and reinforce the upcountry road network, specially places threatened by landslides, with the assistance of the Japanese government this year. Ports, Highways and Shipping Project Minister Nirmala Kothalawala said places vulnerable to landslides have been identified in the upcountry road network and …
Central Environmental Authority (CEA) Chairman Wimal Rubasinghe has requested all political parties to pay special attention to environmental aspects when conducting election propaganda campaigns for the upcoming Western and Southern Provincial Council elections. Speaking to the Daily News, the Chairman requested all candidates and their supporters to refrain from using …
The water level of Malwathu Oya has risen flooding nearby roads. Picture by Anuradhapura Central Special Corr Disaster Management Centre (DMC) sources yesterday said 2,916 persons belonging to 730 families have been affected by floods in the Batticaloa and Polonnaruwa districts. According to the DMC situation report issued at 6 …
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said he will face any challenge in fighting against smoking. The Minister was addressing the gathering after an anti-smoking walk in Colombo yesterday. He said: “No one will be able to stop our fight against smoking. I have many challenges and threats as the Health Minister …
There is a possibility of an increase in rat fever in Hambantota with the rains experienced in the Hambantota district, health officials said. Regional Director of Health Services, Hambantota, Dr. A.M.U. Karunaratna said farmers working in paddy fields and children playing in abandoned paddy fields should be careful because rats …
Thermal generation at Sri Lanka’s state-run power utility has reached 70 percent with a sharp drop in cheap hydro generation amid dry weather, official data shows. On January 07, Ceylon Electricity Board generated 69.9 percent of its daily 32.5 GigaWatts (millions of units of electricity) from thermal sources with hydro …
Aranayake turned lush green when local schoolchildren, principals, district office-bearers and monks alike knelt together to plant 1500 trees in the area, in a bid to combat soil erosion. The trees selected were carefully hand-picked by Janashakthi Insurance, who donated trees which were endemic to the area, and would provide …
Around Rs.2000 million has been granted to the Health Ministry in the 2014 budget allocations to control the alarming spread of various forms of cancers and chronic kidney disease. The total budget allocation for the Health Ministry for the year 2014 was Rs. 157 billion. Rs. 117 billion would be …
Jan 08, Colombo: Statistics released by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) Wednesday showed that Sri Lanka had met its tourist arrival target of 1.2 million for the year 2013. The Authority has validated the tourist arrival figures for each month of last year and according to validated data 1,274,593 …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has allocated a colossal amount of funds in the history of the country for the development of rural road network in 2014, said Anuradhapura district MP Shehan Semasinghe. He was addressing a meeting held to mark the donation of a set of water tanks to Galapitagala Supirithodaya …
Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Ministry is aiming to increase the fisheries sector income to Rs 50,000 million in the near future, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said. There is a significant rise in Sri Lanka’s fish exports during the past few years and it showed …
National Cancer Control Programme Director Dr. Mrs. Dr. Neelamani Paranagama yesterday revealed that the number of cancer patients in Sri Lanka had more than doubled in the last two decades. She pointed out that twenty years bac, around 5,000 to 6,000 cancer patients had been detected annually, but the number …
