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Man-made wild fires in Sri Lanka's hill country damage 1,500 acres of protected forest [1]

District Secretary of Sri Lanka's hill country Nuwara Eliya D.P.G. Kumarasiri pointed out that the wild fires in the forests have damaged around 1,500 acres of indigenous forest cover.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2012
Colombo Page (Sri Lanka) [2]
Tags:
Sri Lanka [3], South Asia [4], Forest Fires [5], Forests [6], Flora [7], Fauna [8], Tourism [9]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/colombo-page-sri-lanka
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sri-lanka
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-fires
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/flora
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fauna
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tourism