Category: Environment

Mar 27, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s aggressive economic expansions into elephant country through recent projects may further aggravate human conflicts, which are already taking a toll on human and animal life, researchers and conservationists have warned. Driving elephants into reserves or transporting is not effective as they try to come back. Disturbing the habitat […]

Mar 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka could cut green house gas emissions by 19 percent by 2020 by increasing energy efficiencies and by using green power technologies, an Asian Development Bank study has said. Sri Lanka offers high tariffs for municipal waste energy but no firm project has so far come forward, with industry […]

Jan 21, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Aitken Spence Printing said its new printing facility had received a ‘Gold’ rating from in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) from US-based Green Building Council. The company’s new 77,000 square feet facility near Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, was given LEED-NC (New Construction): GOLD Certification, the firm […]

Jan 04, 2012 (LBO) – Japan will give 23 million Yen (32 million rupees) worth disaster aid to victims of Sri Lanka’s recent floods and landslides, the embassy of Japan in Colombo said.“The emergency assistance includes tents, plastic sheets and sleeping pads for those affected by the recent floods and landslides,” the embassy of Japan […]

Dec 20, 2012 (LBO) – Flooding and landslide from days of heavy rain in Sri Lanka’s central, eastern and southern areas have left 25 dead, 13 missing and more than 18,000 homeless, the state disaster management agency said. High winds and flood had left 8,237 homeless in Baticaloa in the East of the island and […]

Dec 18, 2012 (LBO) – Flooding and landslides have killed at least nine people and left thousands homeless, Sri Lanka’s disaster management office said as heavy rains continued to lash parts of the island. Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre said eight people had died in Matale and one is Kandy in central Sri Lanka and […]

COLOMBO, Nov 27, 2012 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s health ministry announced plans on Tuesday to draw up new guidelines for donating food to the country’s venerated Buddhist monks amid concerns about their weight and health. The ministry said the faithful, who offer alms as a religious tradition, tended to give food that was too high […]

Nov 23, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Dilmah, a tea sector group are starting an initiative to promote conservation. The Business and Biodiversity Platform (B&B Platform) would allow businesses to share information on conservation and also tap local international expertise in the area. […]

Nov 11, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s health ministry has put off till March 2013, graphic labeling designed to educate consumers on the cancer and heart disease causing effects of cigarette smoke. Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Tobaccco Company, a unit of British American Tobacco, went to courts against the new rules which gave three months for […]

Nov 06, 2012 (LBO) – Feeding of begging wild elephants in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park, can be made safer for both man and animal if it is formalized as a supervised process, where fees are charged, a wildlife enthusiast has suggested. S M S Senadhipathi, a wildlife enthusiast says though elephants lining up for […]

Nov 05, 2012 (LBO) – Researchers at America’s Stanford University have found little evidence to back a widespread belief that organic foods which are sometimes twice as expensive as conventional ones, gives more health benefits, a report has said. A team led by Dena Bravata, a senior affiliate with Stanford’s Center for Health Policy, and […]

Oct 19, 2012 (LBO) – A sudden ban on the sale of Corex, a cough syrup originally formulated by the US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer which has brought relief to tens of thousands of sufferers, is temporary, Sri Lanka’s health minister said. The sale of Corex branded medicine variants were banned following the deaths of several […]