The results of the first countrywide elephant survey will be released on Friday, a Wildlife Conservation Department (WCD) spokesman told the Daily News yesterday.
Over 2,000 tons of E-waste had been collected under the National E-waste Management Programme, a Central Environmental Authority spokesman told the Daily News Tuesday.
A sudden forest fire broke out in Galahagama village in the Uva Paranagama Divisional Secretariat Division destroying about 15 acres of forest land, Nuwara Eliya District Disaster Management Coordi
New regulations have been drafted to be introduced to the National Environment Act to control noise pollution caused by the tooting of vehicle horns, Central Environmental Authority chairman Charit
A recent research has revealed that the national flower of Sri Lanka ‘Blue Water Lily or Nil Manel’ (Nymphaea Nouchali) is facing the threat of extinction due to its hybridization with the violet f
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), stepping forward in the mission to supply electricity to all, took over the administrative and operational work of the Lak Vijaya Coal Power Plant in Norochchola
The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau under the direction of the Environment Ministry has intervened to conserve Ma Oya river bank which is threatened by erosion.
The Ma Oya river bank adjacent to the Wickramasheela National School in Kurunegala District had been subjected to gradual erosion posing a danger to the school.
There is no imminent threat of sea water intrusion into the Kelani river as a result of the prevailing dry weather, National Water Supply and Drainage Board chairman Karunasena Hettiarachchi told the Daily News yesterday.
He requested the public not to be deceived by false rumours that sea water has mixed with the water being distributed in Colombo.
Wildlife Conservation Department Director General Dr Chandrawansa Pathiraja stressed that no elephants in the South will be relocated either for the construction of the Mattala airport or for the proposed Games City in Hambantota hosting Commonwealth Games in 2018.
He said that the media reports that the Government was planning to relocate 200 elephants were baseless and not true.
