In a gesture of environmental collaboration, Sri Lanka has gifted 1,000 non-endemic plants to the Maldives to support an ...

Such illegal trade takes on a dangerous dimension because 25% of all species, both animals and plants, in Sri Lanka are endemic. The endemicity of certain classes of animals is proportionately higher ...

However, it lost its prestigious endemic status in 1984 as its presence was reported in India by two scientists there. But thanks to a study done by the Herpetological Foundation of Sri Lanka it has ...