Sand mining racket in guise of chili cultivation harms Mahaweli River

Sand mining is taking place on a large scale in a natural delta of the Mahaweli river at Safi Nagar in Trincomalee in the guise of a 3,000-acre chili cultivation, alleges social scientist and environmentalist Ravindra Kariyawasam. According to Kariyawasam, who is also the national coordinator of the Centre for Environment and Nature Studies (CENS), this massive environmental destruction has […]