Conserve of the nature by conserving the indigenous knowledge! 1 – Local courses for environment awareness development 2 – Organic Farming 3 – Legal Cases towards environmental injustices 4 – Campaigns against environmental destruction 5 – CENS Center/Library/ and Organic Farming Model Project in Netiya, Wariyapola 6 – Buddhism and environment 7 – Spiritual mind and nature 1 – Environmental […]
Prof. Daya Somasundaram University of Jaffna There is an ecological disaster of serious proportions taking shape over the last few years with the effects already showing in the Vallikamam area of Northern Sri Lanka. It is being realized by the more than quarter million people living in Vallikamam that their ground water is polluted by oil waste. According to samples […]
by Lalin Fernandopulle (http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2015/04/12/f) Opponents of the Colombo Port City project came down hard on the proponents and backers of the controversial project at a ‘Public Tribunal’ organised by Transparency International last week in Colombo, condemning it outright as a move that is catastrophic to the environment and livelihood of a large number of fisher folk in the country. Environmentalists […]
Tuesday, March 3, 2015, environmentalists took to the roads in protest against the Colombo Port City Project. One of the many projects of the Rajapaksa government and the one that has been used freely by President Sirisena’s election campaign days, the project is planned on 252 hectares of reclaimed land in Colombo. This land (if the project is carried as […]
Environmental organizations states that the government should take measures to permanently stop the Colombo Port City project instead of temporary suspension.Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ajith P. Perera told our news team that the cabinet has decided to temporarily suspend the Colombo Port City project.Colombo Port City Project commenced during the previous regime under Chinese government aid.However, environmental organizations and […]
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa( The Island News paper) A Sri Lankan environmentalist body has objected to a billion-dollar Chinese funded Port City being built off the coast of Colombo to uplift the city as a modern international metropolis. The Centre for Environmental and Nature Studies (CENS) has claimed that the country’s delicate marine ecosystem is paying the price […]
By Shalika Wimalasena 2014-11-16 “Many people think this is the end but this is the beginning.” Many of us did not understand that. He was talking about the landslide in Meeriyabedda in Koslanda in which scores of hapless people were buried alive without last respects. But this is a story about living people. We must learn a lesson from […]
BY NIRANJALA ARIYAWANSHA-Ceylon today November 9, 2014 A tunnel being dug 100 metres below the Koslanda hills, where the recent landslide tragedy took place, may be the cause of the tragedy, environmentalists inferred.This tunnel will divert Mahaweli waters from Kirindi Oya to the Moneragala, Badulla and Hambantota Districts under the Rs 80 billion multipurpose Uma Oya Hydro Electric Power and Irrigation […]
Environmentalists and scientists trade arguments Was Uma Oya Project responsible for Koslanda tragedy? By Niranjala Ariyawansha -Ceylon today 09/11/2014 Soon after the devastating landslide hit the village of Meeriyabedda in Koslanda in the early hours of Wednesday, 29 October, burying several lives and displacing hundreds, the blame game began. The government authorities started blaming the people for not relocating to […]