By Dr Prsanna Cooray (The Island ,2017,01,15) Close on the heels a move to hand over 15,000 acre land to the Chinese in Medilla in the Ambalantota Divisional Secretary Division in Hambantota District, come the news of a land grab comes from another corner of the same district––in the Suriyawewa Divisional Secretary Division. This time around, it is in a […]
By Kalani Kumarasinghe (Daily mirror) The Port City project -stalled, suspended and recommenced-has been under public scrutiny for various reasons. Five years in the making, the project has withstood regime change, public protests and spurious criticism levelled by political parties and personalities who have changed their tunes according to election whims. Nevertheless a group of activists who voiced their concerns […]
by Ifham Nizam http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2016/12/25/do-or-die-battle-looms-at-uma-oya/ Farmers cannot be sidelined in a country which is dependent on agriculture Recent landslides in Koslanda could in fact be a result of the Uma Oya project as well Uma Oya project is witnessing large scale land grabbing by politicians Uma Oya Project: Development or disaster… Plans are underway to stage a massive protest against the […]
සොබාදහම උදේසා කාන්තිවෝ සංවිධානය කල රුක්රෝපණ වැඩ සටහන හා පරිසර හිතකාමී සංස්කෘතියක් උදේසා කතාබහ පසුගිය නත්තල් දින උල්පත රක්ෂිතය තුලදී සිදුකෙරිණි මෙම අවස්ථාව සාර්ථක කරගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් සොබාදහම උදේසා කාන්තාවන් මෙන්ම ප්රවීණ රංගන ශිල්පි ජනක රණසිංහ මහතා හා රූපසාරි ලංකාතිලක මහත්මිය ඉමහත් වෙහෙසක් දරා කටයුතු කරණ ලදි. සොබාදහමි අධ්යන මධ්යස්ථානයේ සමාජික සාමාජිකාවන් මෙන්ම පූජ්ය වෑකදවල රාහුල හිමි හා දේවාලේගම පේමරතන හිමි […]
Bio chars water filter was established in the CENS school by CENS . we used traditional knowledge of water management in Sri Lanka to build this filter . people used bio chars to clean their well water times ago . it is traditional knowledge comes from generation to generation. We established a filter with bio chars of Terminalia arjuna tree. […]
[unitegallery School2] වලස්මුල්ල අධ්යාපන කලාපය නියෝජනය කරමින් වලස්මුල්ල ජාතික පාසල ,කටුවන ජාතික පාසල,උලහිටියාව කණිෂ්ඨ විද්යාලය ,රාජපුරගොඩ කණිෂ්ඨ විද්යාලය,අතුබොදය කණිෂ්ඨ විද්යාලවල පරිසර භාර ගුරු භවතුන් සහ හරිත පදක්කම් ලාබි සිසුන් 75 ට වැඩි ප්රමානයක් සම්බන්ද වුනා.කුඩාබිලේ ශාඛ විවිධත්වය දේශණය විසින් සිදු කරන ලදි . කොට්ටාස අ.අ. නීටා අබේසිංහ මහත්මියගේ මග පෙන්වම මත සොබාදහම් පාසලට පැමිණියා බිබුල් රක්ෂිය අධ්යන කේෂත්ර චරිකාව සහ […]
Interim injunction was issued by the Supreme Court against further function of Jaffna-Chunnakam Northern Power plant. This was regarding a petition made by Director for Center for Environment and Nature Studies (CENS) Ravindra Kariyawasam stating the environmental pollution cause by the plant. This court case were handled free of charge by Layer Nuwan Bopage and Layer Chathura Wettasinghe . Protests […]
A Nature school was started by CENS in Kudabubula in south of Sri Lanka . the village is close to Tangalle. awareness are conducted by CENS team . we basically narrow down about the nature and related topics .Many group of people include with students , journalists , framers ,Buddhist monk and university students are study in our school .. […]
by Hafsa Sabry (www.thesundayleader.lk/2016/11/06/) Environmentalists have opposed moves by the government to encroach 99 acres of land from the Sripada (Adam’s peak) sanctuary to build cable wire cars and luxury hotels under an Urban Development Authority (UDA) project. Out of 12, 329 acres, the project proposes to construct cable wire cars and hotels in 99 acres in the holy grounds […]
by Hafsa Sabry(Sunday Leader News paper) The construction work on port city project has resumed. Only the name of the project has been changed and none of the environmental issues have been resolved. The Colombo International Financial city project is being continued under the National Physical Plan (NPP) of the country. The environmentalists said that they requested the government to […]