Forest fragmentation is considered one of the main threats to biodiversity. Many believe this primarily affects small creatures like amphibians and small mammals, while mobile creatures such as birds ...

You will hear about and see how the forest contains most of Sri Lanka’s endemic species, including 20 of it 26 endemic birds and the critically endangered giant navada tree, which is around 600 ...

Fauna in the Pidurutalaga region include 30 amphibian, five bird, six butterfly, 10 mammalian, three reptilian and five mollusc species. Among several species endemic to Sri Lanka is the Cerataphora ...

Horton Plains, named after the British Governor, Sir Robert Horton (1831 – 37) is home to a wide variety of flora numbering 57 species of which 29 are endemic to Sri Lanka. So it is with the fauna ...

But removing, owning or exporting birds is outlawed under Sri Lanka’s strict flora and fauna regulations. The cup-shaped collections of twigs are held together by dried swiftlet saliva ...

A research study focusing on the endemic brown-capped ... new research coming out of Sri Lanka shows how forest fragmentation can restrict even the movement of birds, especially forest specialists ...