This guide is for governments, conservationist practitioners and insurers to design and introduce insurance schemes to reduce human-wildlife conflict (HWC) and promote human-wildlife coexistence. Certain
Drinking water supply and sanitation projects in Anuradhapura district implemented by the Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Ministry at a cost of Rs.500 million are progressing, Minister Dinesh Gunawardane said. He said the project implemented with the participation of 90 community based organisations will be completed in three phases and nearly 18,669 families in the Rajarata will benefit. Minister Gunawardane was speaking at the progressive meeting at Anuradhapura Jayanthi Viharaya. A large number of community based organisation leaders participated.
the Environment Conservation Levy Act introduced this month proposes to impose taxes on mobile phones, transmission towers, electrical bulbs excluding CFL bulbs and certain motor vehicles. The Govt. hopes to collect between Rs.500-600mn from this levy. The Environment Ministry has also assured that this money will not be misused. The Environment Minister is definitely doing a good job of work and his integrity has never been in doubt. Hence, there is no reason to suspect that monies accruing to the Environment Conservation levy account will be abused.
A few die at childbirth, most go to primary school and almost all are vaccinated at the right time, but the sizeable number of Sri Lankan children are stunted, wasted and underweight for their age and are a cause for concern, according to nutritional authorities.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today launched the World Bank funded project to improve the operational efficiency of some 80 ageing dams and to establish sustainable institutional arrangements for safety management and operations and maintenance of major dams in Sri Lanka in Polonnaruwa today. World Bank has approved a US$65.33 million credit to fund the project to improve 32 of the 80 dams that have been categorized as high risk.
A traditional variety of rice,
An elephant orphanage hits upon a simple solution to a messy problem Pachyderms in a playful mood at Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. PINNAWELA (Sri Lanka): For keepers and mahouts alike, it was always a messy problem that defied solution. We are talking about the roughly 180 kg of waste an adult pachyderm generates a day. And imagine the pile if it were from a herd of 60 staying and sauntering about in one place. That is simply a problem of elephantine proportions at the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage here in Sri Lanka, especially for the poor keepers.
Government of Japan recently donated US $ 87,651 (approximately 9.34 million rupees) to the "Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Sharamadana Sangamaya Inc.,' to secure food supply to the resettled internally displaced families in the Batticaloa District. A statement issued by the Japanese Embassy in Colombo said the funds released to the non governmental organization will assist the returning IDP families to enhance their food security and income sources in Manmunai South West, a conflict affected area, to get back to normalcy.
SAARC leaders yesterday issued a special
The Central Provincial Council has got an allocation of Rs. 50 million for development of 63 minor irrigation schemes, said the Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake. He said several minor irrigation tanks in the Central Province have escaped the attention of the authorities resulting a big threat to the agricultural activities of the province.
The number of HIV cases detected in Sri Lanka is 996 while mother to child contacts remain at 31. Specialist medical officer of HIV/sex related diseases prevention programme, Mrs. Sriya Kanthi Benaragama said that among the patients 410 were females and 563 males. Regular awareness programmes were conducted islandwide in 2007 and 348,895 blood samples were examined during the year, she further said. Since the first detection of an HIV patient in the country in 1987, by June 30, 2008 the number detected was 996 of whom 177 had died.
