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"Sri Lanka bars tourists from heart of drought-hit park as El Nino looms"
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Culture, welfare and politics clash over Sri Lanka’s long-delayed animal welfare law https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/culture-welfare-and-politics-clash-over-sri-lankas-long-delayed-animal-welfare-law/

Culture, welfare and politics clash over Sri Lanka’s long-delayed animal welfare law
KANDY, Sri Lanka – The famous Kandy Esala Perahera procession is one of Sri Lanka’s most vibrant religious-cultural celebrations, which transforms the hill capital into a spectacle of color, music, dance and caparisoned elephants to honor the tooth relic of the Buddha. But as the country prepared for this year’s Esala Perahera, which started on […]

"‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka"
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'Lost' for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka
Researchers have found a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in a recent study, researchers write that the plant, Indianthus virgatus, while officially listed as critically endangered in Sri Lanka, was presumed possibly […]