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Forest Department Makes Progress with Livelihood Enhancement
Seventy eightESCAMP-supported project activities are scheduled to be implementedby the Forest Department.Over 62 of these activities are now completed, while 16 are currently being implemented. This amounts to 80% average physical progress as at mid this year. Livelihood-enhancement activities include, increasing the productivity of home gardens, promoting sustainable agriculture, supporting agro-forestry, developing nature-based tourism and
Developing the 2021-2030 Forestry Sector Master Plan of Sri Lanka
MEDIA RELEASE Developing the 2021-2030 Forestry Sector Master Plan of Sri Lanka The framework to guide the forestry sector in the challenging decade ahead 9 September 2021, Colombo, Sri Lanka: With one of the highest population densities in the world, the demand for land in Sri Lanka has increased exponentially over the years. This and
SMART Patrolling introduced through ESCAMP
With financial and technical support from ESCAMP, the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) has introduced the Spatial Monitoring And Reporting Tool (SMART) to all of its leading Wildlife Protected Areas (WLPAs), since 2017. SMART is a globally used software application that enables field staff of protected areas to collect field data based on their observations,
Tale of Three Trails
Tourist who wanted to enjoy the wonder of nature were hampered due to treacherous trails that take them to see the scenic beauty found within the Sinharaja, Kudawa forest reserve. Therefore, at the request of the Forest Department, ESCAMP stepped forward to support the renovation and development of the Mulawella, Nawadagaha and Halmandiya Dola nature
Pitakale Road: A lifeline to a deprived community
Located outside the Sinharaja Forest Reserve, the Pitakale Road connects the interior Pitakale Village to the rest of the world. With a total extent of around 2 km, over half of this narrow road had already been concreted by the Pradeshiya Sabha. However, this still left the community living in the Pitakale Village to face
කැලෑ පාළුවන් කැලෑ රකින්නන් බවට පත්වූ හැටි
පොළොන්නරුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ හිඟුරක්ගොඩ ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ 31 සිංහගම ග්‍රාම නිලධාරී වසමේ සිංහගම හෙවත් කිතුල් උතුව ගම පිහිටා ඇත. මෙම ගම්මානය 1980 වසරේදී යුද්ධය පැවති සමයේ ජනශුන්‍යව පැවති ප්‍රදේශයක් වූ අතර,එම ප්‍රදේශය ආරක්‍ෂිත ප්‍රදේශයක් කරගැනීමේ අරමුණින් එකල රජය කැලෑව කපා පාර දෙපස ජනතාව පදිංචි කරන ලදී. ගමක් පිහිටුවීමේදී ලබා දිය යුතු මුලික පහසුකම් කිසිවක්ම මෙම ගමට
Creating collaborative network for Matara
With rising demands in development, Matara district is facing challenging situations in environment conservation and development requirements. There is greater need in Matara for the landscape management approach as introduced by ESCAMP. A familiarizing workshop was held in Matara on March 02, 2021 organised by ESCAMP for officials of stakeholder government institutes. The objective was
Landscape management needs great collaboration
Bringing together stakeholders in to implementing Landscape Management has been challenging yet an achieved target. The ESCAMP has been gathering the stakeholders at district level to encourage the all the government institutes in the area to work together towards a sustainable development. The Collaborating meeting organized for the Kalutara district government officials was held on
Workshop on Landscape Management Planning for NGOs
An interactive workshop was held in December 2019 at Grand Monarch Hotel, Thalawathugoda, Battaramulla with the patronage of the Ecosystem Conservation and Management Project (ESCAMP). The key participants were representatives of stakeholder institutions, environment organizations and local NGOs. The main objective of this workshop was to obtain views, comments and suggestions on the draft Land
Island wide Elephant Survey – 2018
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