About Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka
Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting rainforests and threatened ecosystems in Sri Lanka primarily driven through volunteer support. Core activities inclulde advocacy, lobbying & driving policy, environental litigation/petitioning, general activism, reforesting and restoring degraded forest ecosystems, education & awareness, working with regulators & enforcement authorities to address environmental issues, working with state actors to declare/acqurie important ecosystems as protected areas and working to reverse climate change from microclimatic level to national level.Quick Links
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Conservation of Sinharaja World Heritage Rainforest
Sinharaja World Heritage Rainforest is the last virgin rainforest left in Sri Lanka. While many fragmented rainforest patches exist, none of them can match the endemism of
Sinharaja Rainforest. To protect the virgin Sinharaja Rainforest, we have carried out many campaigns to stop encroachment as well as destruction of its streams for mini-hydro projects.
Further, we intend to setup a Conservation Centre on the way to the main entrance in Kudawa where future conservation work can be carried out effectively. We request individual and
corporate sponsors to contact us and help protect Sinharaja Rainforest for future generations.
Protecting Real Acres of Rainforest in Sri Lanka
Through Rainforest Protectors Trust, registered with Land Registry in Sri Lanka, we are urgently working to purchase and permanently protect the last remaining privately held rainforest land adjoining existing protected reserves that are in danger of being clearcut for tea and oil palm plantations, and to secure the buffer zones and create vital bio-diversity corridors to facilitate movement of wildlife and increase genetic diversity. As part of this initiative, we also aim to protect and reconnect the lost rivers of Sinharaja, which has be devoid of its former rivers which now flow outside its core boundaries due to encroachment and fragmentation.
Partnering Community / Area Level Organizations
We work closely with local villagers and community leaders to identify environmental issues that threaten the livelyhoods of local communities. Below are some of the community organizations we work with.- Naththandiya Parisaraya Surakeeme Sanvidhaanaya
- Dehiowita Jana Ayitheen Surakeeme Sanvidhanaya
- Kegalla District Parisara Sanvidhana Ekamuthuwa
- Katupol Virodhee Jaathika Sanvidaana Ekamuthuwa
- Daduruoya Surakeeme Sanvidhaanaya
- Nature Friends Sri Lanka
- Kalawana Paarisarika Padanama
- Sinharaja Sumithuro - Rakwana
- Sinharaja Sumithuro - Eastern Sinharaja
- Wayamba Handa Environmental Organization
- Jana Ayitheen Surakeeme Sanvidhanaya - Deraniyagala
- Walsapugala Govi Sanvidhana Ekamuthuwa
- Dehigama Ekiriyankumbura Farmer Organization
