• Mar 24 Lecture

    Nations Trust WNPS Monthly Lecture

    Insights into Feline Ecology: Unmasking Sri Lanka's Small Wild Cats

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  • UN Award

    2024 marks a landmark achievement in the world of conservation with Sri Lanka being declared as a UN World Restoration Flagship, in recognition of the nation’s vital efforts to rebuild and restore its mangrove ecosystems.

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  • invasive alert

    Invasive Alert

    Details of a preliminary investigation on Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843)

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  • WNPS Plant Maskeliya

    WNPS Plant

    Horana Plantations and WNPS PLANT building ambitious 9km forest corridor

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  • budunwela

    Plant

    Sensitive Budunwela – land acquired by WNPS for the Emerald Trails Wildlife corridor

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  • emerald trails

    Plant

    Connecting dots in conservation

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  • Apple Farm

    Kaleidoscope

    The chairman of Plant, Mr Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne's interview on Kaleidoscope

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  • Apple Farm

    The life 100,000 Macaques at stake

    the Government of Sri Lanka is to capture, confine and sell 100,000 Toque Macaques (Macaca sinaca; S. Rilawa), to China – allegedly for display in its Zoos!

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TheWildlife & Nature Protection Society

The history of wildlife protection in Sri Lanka is almost synonymous with that of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka. At 128 years old, the WNPS is the third oldest Non-governmental Organization of its kind in the World and was responsible for the setting up of Wilpattu & Yala National Parks in Sri Lanka, and for the formation of the Department of Wildlife Conservation.

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  • Conservation

    Conservation

    Conservation

    Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting wild animal and plant species and their habitats. Conservation of Wildlife is important because wildlife plays an important role in balancing the ecosystem, thereby providing ecosystem services that are essential for human survival.

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  • Advocacy & Outreach

    Advocacy & Outreach

    Advocacy & Outreach

    The Conservation Crisis will not be healed through more Conflict and Court Cases. True healing and enlightened Conservation efforts can only come through deep Understanding and Appreciation. This is why a lot of the work WNPS does at our core, focuses on Advocacy through good Outreach. Enabling wider groups, and specialized smaller communities to be better informed, is the starting point for the long journey ahead.

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  • Legal & Policy

    Legal & Policy

    Legal & Policy

    With all the current constraints we all have to endure in our country, the Society will continue to uphold the law on any conservation or illegal encroachment matter and will take legal recourse if the need arises.

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Featured Stories

  • 22 Feb 2024

    Restoration WNPS is at the forefront of conserving Mangrove Ecosystems

  • 13 Feb 2024

    Revolutionising Restoration: Sri Lanka Globally Recognised by UN for Rebuilding Mangrove Ecosystems

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  • 18 Jan 2024

    Horana Plantations and WNPS PLANT building ambitious 9km forest corridor

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  • 04 Dec 2023

    ‘REWILDING’ - 25 years of Land Restoration on the borders of Wasgamuwa National Park

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  • 22 Nov 2023

    The WNPS Encourages Wildlife Photographers to Look at Yala through a Different Lens

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  • 06 Oct 2023

    Call for Proposals: Conservation of Critically Endangered Endemic Species Project

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  • 08 Sep 2023

    BUTTERFLIES: Essential to Ecosystems

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  • 16 Jul 2023

    Baring her bear fascination

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  • 10 Jul 2023

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  • 10 Jul 2023

    Sensitive Budunwela – land acquired by WNPS for the Emerald Trails Wildlife corridor

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  • 16 Jun 2023

    Plant featured on Kaleidoscope

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  • 13 Apr 2023

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  • 02 Mar 2023

    Calling Proposals for Conservation of Critically Endangered Endemic Species Project

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  • 22 Nov 2022

    HUMAN – ELEPHANT PEACE: ‘Ali Pancha’ a Landmark Project

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  • 01 Oct 2022

    Hemas Launches Group Environmental Agenda 2030

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  • 23 Aug 2022

    RE-WILDING PLANTATIONS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

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  • 16 Aug 2022

    THE LAST PAWPRINTS

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  • 12 Aug 2022

    INTERNATIONAL ELEPHANT DAY: What of Sri Lanka’s wild elephant?

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  • 09 Aug 2022

    WILL LEOPARDS SHARE THE SAME FATE AS ELEPHANTS

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  • 02 Aug 2022

    NO ELEPHANTS FOR ME, PLEASE – I’LL TAKE LEOPARDS!

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  • 26 Jul 2022

    IS WILDLIFE TOURISM A MAGNET FOR HIGH SPENDERS

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  • 19 Jul 2022

    RECOVERING FROM THE CRISIS WITHOUT FURTHER HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT

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  • 12 Jul 2022

    SABOTAGE OF A MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTION

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  • 03 Jun 2022

    The Himalayan Crossing of Sherpa Tenzing – a Brown-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) from Sri Lanka

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  • 19 Apr 2022

    WNPS Partners LOLC to Establish a Multi-Regional Monitoring System for the Conservation of the Sri Lankan Leopard

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  • 30 Mar 2022

    Protecting the Roots of the Sea

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  • 21 Mar 2022

    Seylan Tikiri supports ‘Wild Kids’ Signs partnership with WNPS as Banking Partner

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  • 12 Feb 2022

    Update: Dung Beetle Project

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  • 05 Feb 2022

    Community Based Mangrove Restoration in Anawilundawa Stilted for Success in Partnership with WNPS, DWC and HEMAS

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  • 30 Jan 2022

    When ignorance is bliss: Driving Mannar's Birds Away

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  • 20 Dec 2021

    Crudia zeylanica brought back from extinct to mark National Tree Planting Day

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