red light to Sinharaja

Sri lankan government desided construct a new road from Ilumbankanda , Kalawana to Sooriyakanda.this new road occupied a large area of sinharaja world heritage site. UNESCO is request a detail report about this new road.large number of environmental organizations battle against government. Sinharaga is the first natural world heritage in sri Lanka.

Survey of wild elephants

DWC finished the elephant survey on 13th Aug. this time survey was conduct under large number of objections from various kind of people.

Beautiful Acavus snails

Genus Acavus is belongs to family Acavide.it is endemic genus to sri lanka.is Sinhalese these species known as weda golubella,puwak golubella.Genus Acavus is very ancient genus because there are some Acavus snail's shells are found in pahiyangala cave.Acavus snails are pulmonates.Normly pulmonates have very thin shells but in Acavus they have very thick shells and also all the members of genus Acavus Are very colorful.so it helps to get more attention to them.

Acavus genus consist by three species. thos species are

• Acavus Superbus
• Acavus hemastomata
• Acavus phoneix

Acavus phoneix is the largest member in genus Acavus and Acavus phoneix has wide range of distribution. it has occur in all three major climatic zones (Wet Zone,Dry Zone and Intermediate Zone)

2011 Year Of forest

UN announced 2011 as the international year of Forests. they do this for increase the awareness of sustainable management ,conservation and sustainable development of all type of forests.