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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.
The ecoregion covers an area of 48,400 square kilometers (18,700 sq mi), about 75%, of the island of Sri Lanka, with the exception of the islands' southwestern corner and Central Highlands, home to the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests and Sri Lanka montane rain forests ecoregions, respectively, and the northern Jaffna Peninsula, which is part of the Deccan thorn scrub forests ecoregion.
[2] [3] Area [2] [3] [4] km 2 mi 2; Adam’s Bridge: Northern Province: 22 June 2015: 190 73 Angammedilla: North Central Province: 6 June 2006: 75 29 Bundala: Southern Province: 4 January 1993: 62 24 Chundikkulam: Northern Province: 22 June 2015: 196 76 Delft: Northern Province: 22 June 2015: 18 7 Flood Plains: North Central Province: 7 August ...
The protected areas that fall under supervision of the Department of Forest Conservation include forests defined in National Heritage Wilderness Area Act in 1988, forest reservations, and forests managed for sustainability. [2] Sinharaja Forest Reserve is an example for a National Heritage forest (it is also a World Heritage Site).
The Minister believed that declaring the forest as a national park would assist in minimising human-elephant conflict in the area, protect villagers' cultivations and eliminate poaching and unauthorised timber logging. [1] The creation of the park was formally ratified by gazette notification No 1735/21 on 6 December 2011.
Between 1991 and 2000, the total area of forest lost in the Amazon rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km 2 (160,000 to 227,000 sq mi), with most of the lost forest becoming pasture for cattle. [73] Seventy percent of formerly forested land in the Amazon, and 91% of land deforested since 1970, have been used for livestock pasture .
This forest encompasses an area of 36,000 hectares (88,960 acres/360 km 2). [3] The reserve is only 21 km (13 mi) from east to west, and a maximum of 7 km (4.3 mi) from north to south, but it is a treasure trove of endemic species, including trees, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Sinharaja forest vegetation density has been ...
Forest reserves of Sri Lanka (2 P) Pages in category "Forests of Sri Lanka" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.