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National parks are a class of protected areas in Sri Lanka and are administered by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. National parks are governed by the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 2) of 1937 and may be created, amended or abolished by ministerial order . [ 1 ]
Colombo Fire Brigade Rosenbauer AT Fire Engine An ambulance of the Colombo Municipal Council Fire Service. The fire services in Sri Lanka operate under the local ...
Pages in category "National parks of Sri Lanka" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Adam's Bridge Marine National Park;
National protected areas are mainly classified into six types. [9] The first four categories of protected areas cover all the ecological and regions of Sri Lanka. The 5th, 6th and 7th categories were introduced in 1993 by amending the Flora and Fauna Protection Ordinance. However, no regions have been declared under these categories so far.
Fire services in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 03:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
Adam's Bridge with Mannar Island in the foreground. An Integrated Strategic Environmental Assessment of Northern Province produced by the government with the assistance of United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme and published in October 2014 recommended that a national park with an area of 18,990 ha (46,925 acres) be created on the Sri Lankan section of ...
The Sri Lanka Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (SLMRCC) is a planned center responsible for coordinating air-sea rescue within the territorial waters of Sri Lanka and international waters. It will be located at the Naval Headquarters with a sub unit based at Hambantota , under a grant from the Government of India .
Hikkaduwa National Park is one of the three marine national parks in Sri Lanka. The national park contains a fringing coral reef of high degree of biodiversity. The area was declared a wildlife sanctuary on May 18, 1979, and then on August 14, 1988, upgraded to a nature reserve with extended land area. [ 1 ]