The ' Moon Memorial Museum', will be opened within the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, on Sunday, September 28, aimed at preserving threatened plant species and plant parts, while spreading ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve all become accustomed, after all, to the grim news these reports periodically ...

Hunting for domestic meat consumption has long been the main threat to the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in Sri Lanka, but a new study identifies a growing threat from hunting for scales to ...

Sri Lanka’s artisanal fishers are catching more manta and devil rays every year, including endangered species, than all global large industrial purse seine fisheries combined, a study shows. Manta and ...

(CN) – Five species of tarantula from Sri Lanka – some of the biggest in the world – will now be listed as endangered, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday. In 2010, the conservation ...

The trial in Sri Lanka of three Russian citizens accused of illegally collecting and killing endangered wildlife has been postponed until August 27. The postponement of proceedings comes after defense ...

The decision to list five Sri Lanka tarantulas as endangered drew cheers from wildlife advocates even as U.S. collectors worried that the regulatory web will actually reduce the number of captive-bred ...