Sri lanka Tourism Info

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SRI LANKAN WILD LIFE .
The sri lanka is best wild life having country . it have many rain forests . it is very attractive things . lot of passengers also watch that rain forest . this is few of animals crew in yala wild life .

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Sri Lankan Forestes

Sinharaja Forest

Vignettes of Sinharaja (Sinharaja, our great tropical rain forest, by all accounts is a vast repository of national wealth. It was declared a National Heritage Wilderness Site in 1988 and a World Heritage Site in 1989.)

Sinharaja Forest ( the only evergreen rain forest in Sri Lanka which belongs to few remaining virgin forests in the world, is home to hundreds of indigenous flora and many kinds of birds, beasts and reptiles. The Sinhajara forest, 11,187 hectares in all was declared a Man and Biosphere Reserve (MBR) in 1978 and it becProtected Areas of Sri Lanka ame a National Heritage Wilderness Area under the National Heritage Wilderness Area Act in 1988. This virgin forest was named World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1989. )

Yala National Park

Yala National Park (YALA is among the oldest and best known of Sri Lanka’s National Parks. Yala covers about 1297 Km2 or 129,700 ha. And it is the largest agglomeration of protected areas in the country. Kumbukkan Oya in the north East and Menik Ganga and tributaries on the West flow through the Park providing a source of water to the animals even during the driest months of the year. )

Tiger Trails in Yala (Yala is now well recognised as one of the best parks in the world to observe and photograph leopards. )

Vilpattu National Park

The biggest national park in Lanka ( 115 miles from Colombo and 18 miles from Anuradhapura, Vilpattu is the biggest national park in this country covering around 500 sq. miles. )

The birth of a National Park: Uda Walawe

( nestles in the borders of the Moneragala and Ratnapura districts, covers an area of 30,821 hectares. The park was declared a National Park on June 30, 1972 and since then it has become a safe home and a refuge to the animals who had lost their original habitats. According to data, the highest number of wild and tamed elephants live in this park. )

An abode in the wilderness - forest cover of Randenigala ( In the salubrious forest cover of Randenigala live the elephant, tiger, the deer, the sambur, wild boar, and the other quadrupeds along with such reptiles like the python, the cobra and the viper )

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Sri Lankan Native Animals

Sri Lankan Sloth Bear

( The sloth bear (Ursus ursinus), formerly found in most dry zone low country jungles, is now confined to pockets of relatively undisturbed forest. It seems that with encroachment and the general disturbance of our forests, the sloth bear is among the first animals to disappear.)

Interesting Wildlife of Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Lizards:

kabaragoyas & Thalagoyas (Kabaragoyas and thalagoyas are common in Ceylon and are seldom found anywhere else in the world. The kabaragoya is large, the size of an average crocodile, and the thalagoya smaller - a cross between an iguana and a giant lizard..)

Sri Lanka: the New Global Amphibian Hotspot ( Sri Lanka is home to more than 250 species of frogs, a ‘density’ of 3.7 species per 1,000 sq. km. This puts the island well ahead of the former record holder, Costa Rica, which has 2.8 species per sq. km. This represents about 7 per cent of the world’s known frog species )

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Reptiles & amphibians list for Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Elephants

Pinnawela: Sri Lanka's Orphanage for jungle jumbos (There are now 53 residents at the Pinnawela orphanage, which opened its doors on February 17, 1975, with only six beasts.)

Minneriya elephants (Geographically, Habarana is the most convenient and central location for those who want to visit the archaeological sites in Anuradhapura, Polonnnaruwa, Dambulla and Sigiriya.)

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Human Elephant Conflict - Problems and Solutions ( Experts believe that at the turn of the 19th Century there were 20,000 elephants in Sri Lanka. The present population is less than 3,500 elephants. In 1998 alone over 350 elephants were killed in Sri Lanka. At this present rate of mortality the prognosis for the Sri Lankan elephant is indeed bleak. - Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society )

Non-consumptive use of elephants in Sri Lanka (The human-elephant conflict appears to have replaced poaching as a major cause of elephant mortality in Sri Lanka. Elephant populations in the wild have been reduced substantially in the past 50 years, during which between 1500 - 3000 elephants may have been killed in the wild. )

The elephant transit Home (Set up in 1995 as a pilot project by the Department of Wildlife Conservation to look after the abandoned baby elephants till they are able to take care of themselves.)

'Ath Athuru Sevana': The elephant transit Home (Twenty-nine baby elephants, all determined to be the first in the feeding line, 'trumpeting for their breakfast', were a sight that brought instant 'ahhhs' to the lips of the few lucky humans who were permitted to be present.)

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Sri Lankan Leopards

[The Leopards! ]"Of the four species of wild cats found in Sri Lanka, the leopard is the largest. No information exists for all the species of cats in regard to their population, distribution and status. There is also small scale poaching of all the species of cats for their skins, teeth and meat.- slwcs"

Sri Lanka - Own Endemic Lepords

Sri Lankan leopard Project (In Sri Lanka the current population of leopards in the island is unknown. What is known is however is the numbers of these elusive animals have decreased substantially over the last century.)New

Cat News: leopards in Sri Lanka (Charles Santiapillai reports that the leopard Panthera pardus kotiya in Sri Lanka is now "clearly endangered" and that existing protected areas are unlikely to support more than 600 animals.)New

Sri Lankan leopards in Yala (Fierce but beautiful, they are the pride of the jungles of Sri Lanka. Growing to about six to seven feet in length and weighing from 75 to 170 pounds, they are feared by all save perhaps the elephant.)

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Sri Lankan Birds & Bird Watching

New bird discovered by Sri Lankan ornithologist (A previously unknown species of a bird (a type of owl) has been discovered recently in Sri Lanka - the first such discovery in 132 years)

A Birdwatcher's Guide to Sri Lanka

The endangered birds of Sri Lanka

Endemic Birds in Sri Lanka (via mysrilanka.com) (26 birds have been identified as endemic birds of Sri Lanka. Most of this birds are threatened by rapid destruction of forest and drying off of water flows. )

[Owl ! ]

Birdwatcher's Trip Reports to Sri Lanka

October 22-28, 2000 || December 24, 2000 to January 8, 2001 || December 2-17, 2000

March 28 - April 10, 1999 || 24th March 1999 - 7th April 1999 || December 1-20, 1997

Common Sandpiper: Longest staying migrant

( This family has 39 species recorded in Sri Lanka and all are winter migrants or vagrants with no resident species.)

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Bundala - a wetland of international importance ( Bundala is a haven for migrant and resident birds, and is home to over 20,000 migrant birds. According to 'A Guide to Bundala' by Channa Bambaradeniya, a total number of 383 plant species are found while 324 species of vertebrates are also found, 11 being endemic while 29 are nationally threatened species.)

Flamingo Serenade (Among the190 odd species of migrant birds that grace our shores during the bird migration season (September - June), the Greater Flamingo can be ranked as one of those stately migrant birds. )

Watching seabirds on the West Coast of Sri Lanka ( In favourable years as many as 400,000 birds fly southwards during daytime - well within sight of land. )

CROWS ( There are two species in Sri Lanka. The Black crow and the House crow. Crows are one of our smartest and most sophisticated birds. )

White-browed Bulbul: Common and voluble but shy ( Bulbuls are medium-sized birds with short, round wings, medium or long tails, short sturdy legs and soft plumage. They belong to the family Pycnonotidae that is represented by six species in Sri Lanka.)

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( The book, which contains sixteen coloured plates of exquisite drawings of birds endemic to Ceylon with an accompanying brief but very informative accompanying text written by W.E. Wait and published by the Ceylon Government, is undoubtedly one of the finest legacies left behind by the colonial masters for bird lovers in this country. )