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NASA satellite view of Sri Lanka revealing sparser areas of forest to the north and east of the island. Deforestation is one of the most serious environmental issues in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's current forest cover as of 2017 was 29.7%. [1] In the 1920s, the island had a 49 percent forest cover but by 2005 this had fallen by approximately 26 percent.
Protected areas of Sri Lanka are administrated by Department of Forest Conservation and Department of Wildlife Conservation of Sri Lanka.There are 501 protected areas in Sri Lanka. [1] The protected areas that fall under supervision of the Department of Forest Conservation include forests defined in National Heritage Wilderness Area Act in 1988 ...
The head of the department is the Conservator General, Dr. K.M.A.Bandara. It comes under the purview of the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resource Conservation. It has limited policing powers in protected forest areas to stop illegal poaching and logging, with the power to arrest suspects.
Sri Lanka continental separated from the south eastern tip of peninsular India by the more than 20 m deep Palk Strait.There had been repeated land connections with India across this strait during successive glacial periods, the last being between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago when the sea level was about 120m below the present level creating a 140 km wide land bridge.
It is the government department responsible for maintaining national parks, nature reserves and wildlife in wilderness areas in Sri Lanka. [3] Forest reserves and wilderness areas are maintained by the Department of Forest Conservation. [4] The head of the department is the Director General of Wildlife Conservation, formally known as Warden.
9.0% (167,000 hectares [13]) of Sri Lanka's forests are classified as primary forest (the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest). Sri Lanka's forests contain 61 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass (in 2010 [14]). The southwest portion of the island, where the influence of the moisture-bearing southwest monsoon is ...
Minister of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation of Sri Lanka; Incumbent Hon. Mahinda Amaraweera [1] since 23 May 2022. Ministry of Wildlife Resources Conservation:
The Sri Lanka lowland rain forests represents Sri Lanka's Tropical rainforests below 1,000 m (3,281 ft) in elevation in the southwestern part of the island. The year-around warm, wet climate together with thousands years of isolation from mainland India have resulted in the evolution of numerous plants and animal species that can only be found ...