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Southern Province: 11 September 2009: 1.86 0.72 Gal Oya Valley North East: Eastern Province: 12 February 1954: 124.32 48.00 Gal Oya Valley South East National Sanctuary: Eastern Province Uva Province: 12 February 1954: 152.81 59.00 Galway's Land National Sanctuary: Central Province: 27 May 1938: 0.57 0.22 Giant's Tank National Sanctuary ...
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.
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 ...
This is the first new bird species discovered in Sri Lanka since 1868, when the Sri Lanka whistling-thrush (Myophonus blighi) was described. [4] There are some proposals for species level taxonomic revisions, and therefore endemic status in Sri Lanka. [1] The country prefix "Sri Lanka" in common names is normally restricted to endemic species.
The last recorded sighting of knob-billed duck, now thought be extinct in Sri Lanka, occurred in here. [2] Red-faced malkoha and Sri Lanka spurfowl are two endemic birds that reside in the park. Endemic Bufo atukoralei, Fejervarya limnocharis, Polypedates maculatus, Banded bull frog, and Microhyla rubra are among the amphibians of the national ...
Following the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War the government announced plans to convert various sanctuaries in the Northern Province, including Kokkilai, into national parks. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Four new national parks were created in the Northern Province on 22 June 2015 but Kokkilai remains only a sanctuary.
Chundikkulam Lagoon and its surrounding area was designated as a bird sanctuary on 25 February 1938 under the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 2) of 1937. [1]In January 2009 the Sri Lanka Army's 55 Division, advancing from Nagar Kovil, re-captured the area around Chundikkulam sanctuary from the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
National parks are a class of protected areas in Sri Lanka and are administered by the Department of Wildlife Conservation.National parks are governed by the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 2) of 1937 and may be created, amended or abolished by ministerial order. [1]