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To me, the leopard, with its dappled coat, perfectly crafted by nature for camouflage, is the epitome of strength and grace in movement. To me, the leopard is an animal on which I focused for many years of my student life and about whose well-being, my passion continues to this day.
Leopards in Horton Plains National Park exhibit unique adaptations to their cold, mist-covered environment, including larger body size and thicker underfur, which align with Bergmann’s rule Geographic isolation and environmental pressures can lead to the formation of new subspecies through genetic divergence and reproductive isolation Despite their distinct habitats, Sri Lankan leopards do not currently meet the criteria for subspeciation.
Embarking on a visionary restoration journey, Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC (TTE PLC) and WNPS PLANT jointly initiated one of the largest ecosystem restoration projects in recent times. This exciting but challenging, project in the central highlands aims at reforesting and creating a continual 13 km long forest passage bordering the Nanu Oya and Agra Oya banks, and will be supported by potentially different partners for each segment of the corridor, a WNPS news release said.
In 1894, when the Game Protection Society of Ceylon was established by a group of British colonialists who recognized that the local wildlife and their habitats were beginning to disappear, they could not have foreseen the monumental organization it would become a century later. Gratitude is due to those early pioneers and their successors who laid the foundation for modern conservation in Sri Lanka and for the creation of the Wildlife & Nature Protection Society (WNPS).
An organisation, dedicated to the protection, conservation and preservation of the environment and the fauna and flora of the country sought the intervention of the Supreme Court on the Adani backed proposed Mannar Wind Power Project in the highly ecologically sensitive location of Mannar.
As the world marks Environment Day on June 5, Yomal Senerath-Yapa visits the threatened Anavilundawa wetlands where the WNPs together with the Wayamba University and Wildlife Dept. is involved in restoring a critical ecosystem.