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Kayankerni coral reef is a typical shallow reef with an average length of around roughly 2.5 km (1.6 mi) along the coast at the southern end of the Vandalous Bay. [2] The waters within the territories of the reef is measured on an average depth of within 1 and 1.5 m (3 ft 3 in and 4 ft 11 in) whereas the outer ends of the reef is remarkably measured at 6–7 m (20–23 ft).
Hikkaduwa Coral Gardens Marine National Sanctuary & National Park: Southern Province: 18 May 1979: 1.02 0.39 Honduwa Island National Sanctuary: 19 November 1973: 0.09 0.03 Kahalla-Pallekele National Sanctuary: Central Province North Central Province North Western Province: 1 July 1989: 216.90 83.75 Kalametiya Lagoon National Sanctuary: Southern ...
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.
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]
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.
The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will protect 4,543-square-miles of the Pacific Ocean from just south of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County to Naples ...
Pigeon Island National Park is one of the three marine national parks of Sri Lanka. The national park is situated 1 km off the coast of Nilaveli, a coastal town in Eastern Province, encompassing a total area of 471.429 hectares. The island's name derives from the rock pigeon which has colonized it. The national park contains some of the best ...
The Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation [2] (Sinhala: වනජීවී හා වන සම්සත් සංරක්ෂණ අමාත් ...