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Dilmah Conservation carried out a practical on site lecture on sustainable agriculture methods for a group of 20 media personnel representing the electronic and print media recently at their agriculture research facility in suburban Colombo. The Dilmah Conservation Sustainable Agriculture Research Centre (DCSARC) comprises of the DC farm and Research Centre. The Centre has ongoing programmes on sustainable ... Read more

Dilmah supported the 9th International Conference of NAPSIPAG (Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance), organized by the Department of Management University of Monash in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA). The conference was held from 12-14 December in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The theme for the conference was ‘ ... Read more

Construction of the Field Research Station in Thondamannaru nears completion The Field Research Station in Thondamanaru, Jaffna, where the cream of Jaffna’s scientific community learnt their A’s and B’s, is now being rebuilt with the support of Dilmah Conservation. A victim of the now concluded war, the Field Research Station was completely destroyed during the insurgencies in January 1983. The ... Read more

Birds are a highly specialised group of warm-blooded vertebrates, which maintains a constant temperature and whose forelimbs have developed into wings. This, together with their other highly distinctive characters, the feathers enables them to fly. The feather is an extraordinary device. Few substances can equal it as an insulator and none, weight for weight, whether man-made or animal-grown, can excel it ... Read more

Mythology and Folklore - According to folklore, when a tarantula bites, the victim curls up and draws in the arms and legs in a manner of a spider trying to hide. This, in fact, is due to the muscle spasms and pain a victim experiences after a bite. Tarantulas in Indigenous Medicine - The silk, venom and body part of the tarantulas are used to prepare a potionto treat different types of ailments. Spider ... Read more

20th November 2012, Thoppigala, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka - The jungles of Thoppigala in Eastern Sri Lanka were the centrepoint of some of the fiercest battles that took place during the tail end of the now concluded war. During the operations to liberate the area in 2007, significant amounts of forests were lost in Thoppiglala. On 15th November 2012, to coincide with the National Tree Planting Day – ... Read more

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13 November, 2012 – The Sri Lanka Business & Biodiversity Platform was launched at the Corporate Citizen’s Awards on Monday the 12th November at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, Sri Lanka.  The Business & Biodiversity (B&B) Platform is initiated by IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, together with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), and Dilmah ... Read more

03 October 2012 (IUCN) Biodiversity of the Gulf of Mannar provide many ecosystem goods and services, and these benefits are being compromised due to lack of information, awareness and inadequate policies. This issue gains more urgency as climate change will exacerbate threats as well as act synergistically with existing threats. Current threats to biodiversity in the Gulf of Mannar include pollution ... Read more

Hyderabad, India, 20 October 2012 (IUCN) Despite good progress towards achieving the 2020 targets to halt the loss of biodiversity, efforts to conserve nature must be urgently scaled up if we want to meet the 2020 deadline to save all life on earth – says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). The UN Biodiversity talks closing today in Hyderabad, India, saw an overall consensus on the ... Read more