You might never have thought of going to Sri Lanka for bird-watching, but it’s always a good idea to heed the advice of the locals – even the ancient ones. About 5,000 years ago, at what is now ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I don’t know who the woman was, but I remember her words exactly. She’d signed up for a bird walk as part of ...

A two-year-old eagle was attached with a GPS collar and released near the historical Gannoruwa forest in Kandy recently Annually, as Sri Lankans eagerly await the return of migratory birds to this ...

As migratory birds of all shapes and shades start flocking to Sri Lanka for the northern hemisphere winter, prominent local environmental lawyer and naturalist Jagath Gunawardena prepares to once ...

Sri Lanka has published its latest assessment of the conservation status of birds, showing a worrying increase in the number of species considered threatened since the last assessment was published in ...

MANNAR, Sri Lanka — Under the blanket of darkness, giant trucks rumbled through the narrow roads of Sri Lanka’s Mannar district, their headlights cutting through the night. On their trailers lay ...

Three Emu birds and four Ring-Tailed Lemurs from the Czech Republic arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday (August 9) as part of an animal exchange programme. Emus are the second-ranked flightless birds ...