Category Archives: wild life
Meeting Ms Koala in Belair Park
Filed under asylum-seekers, landscape wondrous, taking the piss, tolerance, wild life
Rajiva on the Sajin Vass Thuggery and Internal Jealousies here, there and everywhere
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha MP interview with News 1st on 3rd October 2014 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vmRS9fDr8.
ALSO SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajin_Vass_Gunawardena
TRAVEL PULSE sees good future for Tourism in Lanka
James Ruggia, in The Daily News, 24 September 2014, where the title is “What’s Next for Sri Lanka’s Growing Tourism?”
Sri Lanka finally seems to have moved the conversation away from the past to the more appealing power of its tourism attractions including tea plantations, blue whale watching, highlands, wildlife viewing, beaches, lakes, rivers and jungles. In August the country had already welcomed its millionth visitor, a development that has tourism officials optimistic that they can reach their 2014 goal of 1.5 million visitors. Last year the country attracted about 1.2 million visitors and is targeting 2.5 million in 2015.
White water rafting at Kitulgala
In the immediate aftermath of the war, it was difficult to attract tourists or investment. International hotel companies were among the first tourism concerns to enter the country with Marriott, Hyatt, Mövenpick and Shangri-La leading the charge and several tour operators are now also wading in the waters. Continue reading
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Absorbing Informative Wild Life Ethnography
SEE https://www.youtube.com/embed/-X-XvNRShd0
Wildest Islands Sri Lanka
Published on Oct 4, 2013
Preview YouTube video Wildest Islands Sri Lanka
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Fabulous Bird Snaps from Marcel Bandaranaike in Lanka
Changeable Hawk Eagle
ALSO SEE http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=local/top-seven-wild-sri-lanka-flagship-species
Filed under sri lankan society, the imaginary and the real, tourism, unusual people, wild life
Wild Life Reserves of Sri Lanka
Marcel Bandaranaike, courtesy of The Aloysian, April and August issues, 2014
Mihintale, in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura located in the North Central province of Sri Lanka is said to be the world’s first recorded (247 BC) wild life & nature reserve established by King Devanampiyatissa, a convert to conservationism. Further evidence of this deep rooted concern to the conservation of wild life is found in an inscription engraved on a stone slab at Anuradhapura’s majestic Ruwanveli dagoba, attributed to the 12th century king Nissankamalla, forbidding capture, killing or commercial trafficking of any animals within a radius of 7 (gauvva) from the city.
At present, some of the better nature reserves in the Indian Sub-Continent & South East Asia for Leopard & Elephant are found in Sri Lanka. 
There are 21 national parks in Sri Lanka maintained by the Department of Wild Life Conservation.
- Angammedilla National Park 11. Lunugamvehera National Park
- Bundala National Park 12. Madura National Park
- Flood Plains National Park 13. Minneriya National Park
- Gal Oya National Park 14. Pegion Island National Park
- Galway’s National Park 15. Somawathiya Chaitiya National
- Hikkaduwa National Park 16. Udawalawe National Park
- Horagolla National Park 17. Ussangoda National Park
- Horton Plains National Park 18. Wasgomuwa National Park
- Kaudulla National Park 19. Wllpattu National Park
- Lahugala National Park 20. Kumana National Park (Yala East)
21. Yala National Park Continue reading
Goodness Gracious Me! … !!!!
A Tale of Biting Off More than One can Chew! … with a hip hip hurrah for Marcel Bandaranaike!
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