Ecotourism

What can you do for Environment Friendly Living

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

What Can You Do…

to Help Sustain Soils?
to Promote More Sustainable Agriculture?
to Help Reduce Pesticide Use and Exposure?
to Control Common Insect Pests and Weeds?
to Reduce Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution?
to Reduce Water Waste?
to Reduce Water Pollution?
to Reduce Solid Waste?

to Reduce Hazardous Waste?
to Help Preserve Biodiversity?
to Be a Responsible Ecotourist?
to Help Protect Endangered and Threatened Species?
to […]

Economic implications of declaration of Knuckles conservation zone

Friday, January 18th, 2008

The objective of this study is to assess the economic impacts of Knuckles Conservation Zone (KCZ) on the livelihoods of peripheral households and vise versa the impact of the utilization of forest resources by households on the sustainability of the forest after the conservation zone declaration. A detailed population survey, observations, participatory methods and discussions […]

Sinharaja World Heritage Forest

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Sinharaja is a forest in south-west wet zone of Sri Lanka which contians a high Bio diversity. A large proportion of flora and fauna in this forest is endemic to the country and some endemic to the Singharaja Forest itself. This is a very good place to see many endemic birds such as Ceylon Lorikeet, […]

Ecotourism in Sri Lanka

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Sri Lanka is one of the 25 Biodiversity hot spots of the world. The country
has the highest Biodiversity per 10,000 square km in Asia. Fifteen (15)
distinct bio regions in an area of 62,500 square km each offering different
landscapes and wildlife opportunities - with an ancient civilization contemporary
to that of the Greeks and Romans and numerous […]