Story | 16 Jul, 2018
Creating a Urban Garden for all - Colombo, Sri Lanka
CEESP News - Kanchana Weerakoon, Founder/President, Eco Friendly Volunteers (ECO-V), Sri Lanka
The Metta Garden in Colombo, Sri Lanka, run by Eco friendly Volunteers, is the place for generating healthy food for people and a living space for many other animals and plants. It has become…
Story | 29 Jun, 2018
A special Training Workshop on Geographic Information and Map Data Use was conducted at the University of Uva Wellassa in Badulla from 8-10 June 2018.
Story | 13 Jun, 2018
Aleksey Zavarzin IUCN CEC Regional Vice Chair for Eastern Europe and Central Asia meets CEC members from Iran
Story | 28 May, 2018
World Heritage in-danger: Belize reef recovers while Lake Turkana faces dam threat – IUCN
In-danger status can be lifted from the world’s second largest coral reef, Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in charge of advising the UNESCO World Heritage Committee on natural sites. IUCN recommends danger-listing Kenya’s…
Story | 28 May, 2018
Contributing to greening post-crisis recovery for resilient reconstruction
Organized by UN Environment together with the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR), the seminar was titled, “Greening post-crisis recovery for resilient reconstruction”. The seminar was held in Geneva from 25-27 April…
Story | 02 Apr, 2018
Celebrating the World Water Day 2018 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel Colombo
The Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo celebrated the “World Water Day” on 23 March 2018, with a special emphasis on conserving water and relevance of nature based solutions. The Guest Speech was delivered by Dr Ananda Mallawatantri, Country…
Story | 02 Apr, 2018
Investing in future: Enriching the Exhibition at a Leading Girls’ School in Colombo
To mark the 45th anniversary of Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya in Colombo, a Science and Technology Exhibition was held from 7 to 8 March 2018 at the College premises. The exhibition, which aimed to enhance talents of school children through…
Story | 05 Feb, 2018
Anantara Tangalle, one of Sri Lanka’s top-ranked luxury resorts and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) joined hands in May 2017 to support sea turtle conservation…
Story | 01 Feb, 2018
North-South Learning and Sharing: Ancient water management systems in Anuradhapura
Ancient irrigation and water management schemes, including village tank cascades, established over 2,000 years ago by then rulers to meet the challenges from droughts and floods in the dry-zone of Sri Lanka still provides climate adaptation solutions.
Story | 24 Jan, 2018
Innovative and collaborative: The future of plastic waste management in Sri Lanka
Plastic has become an essential part of life nearly everywhere in the world. Its durability, malleability, light weight and low production cost makes it one of the most widely-used material on the planet, which, in turn, has led to equally-widespread consequences for the environment.