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Six extraordinary stories on intangible losses due to climate change

There are many climate change stories but those that often go missing in the media are linked to non-economic loss and damage (NELD) such...

Nature’s final stand: Sinharaja elephant battles for survival in shrinking habitat

Speed Read: ‘Panu kota,’ a lone elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) roaming the Sinharaja forestcapes in Sri Lanka’s south is living evidence of how deforestation causes...
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Invasive plants pose threat to endemic wildlife in Kanneliya forest

Introduced to Sri Lanka during the 1950s to control deforestation and to support the plywood industry, hard alstonia or...

Falling wings: The fragile future of Sri Lanka’s rainforest butterflies

Speed Read: Sri Lanka’s lowland rainforests support many endemic butterfly species that depend on intact forest habitats. Disturbance and fragmentation reduce...

Buffer of Sri Lanka’s second largest lowland rainforest faces deforestation

Speed Read: Unprotected forest patches around Sri Lanka’s Kanneliya rainforest, a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot, face ongoing deforestation. Despite a 2004...

🌿 Sri Lanka’s tree cover on the edge

🔎 Await CIR’s latest OSINT-led investigation highlighting the extent of tree cover loss from 2002 to 2024 in one...

In The Shadows: The Shahtoosh Story

In the bustling streets of Srinagar’s Old City, in India’s Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the mention of...

From War to Weather: Tamil Women in Sri Lanka Confront a New Crisis

The island nation's north saw the last phase of a brutal civil war. As war widows and mothers of...