News
- 22-Mar-2010 Born to be wild? Then this is your rite of passage.
Explore the outdoors and make it a fun but consequential learning experience: a four day immersion course and explorative adventure in the Himbiliyakade Forest Reserve, Wasgamuwa National Park and Knuckles Mountain Range. Observe a myriad of wildlife including those inhabiting the undergrowth, learn about agro-ecology, GIS/mapping and orienting and work with communities to resolve human-elephant conflicts for sustainable elephant conservation. Learn natural history under the guidance of trained and experienced educators. The OEE Program is approved by the Ministry of Education of Sri Lanka. Click here
- 11-Jan-2010 New Dairy Project
Agriculture is considered one of the biggest reasons for loss of biodiversity and habitats by scientists and it also contributes to climate change and global warming. Meanwhile, environmental conservation is considered one of the largest impediments to agriculture and development by planners, farmers, and aid agencies. A recently created project aims to show we can simultaneously work together to enhance the productivity of marginal dry-zone lands while conserving a sustainably managed environment. This will be achieved by developing appropriate land management systems, sustainable technologies and a nucleus breeding program to increase milk production without increasing the number of cattle or deforestation to convert additional forest into pasture. Click here
- 01-Jan-2010 Kick start the new year with a donation!
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We are currently doing a fundraising drive for our feature documentary about Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka through Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, filmmakers and the like, where you can support projects through donations (big and small). Learn more, support the cause, or spread the word!
- 26-Oct-09 Launch of new website
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We are excited to launch our new website! Please be patient as some links are still under construction.
- 11-Aug-09 Google.org Geo Challenge Grant awarded
We were selected along with 13 other organizations that aim to integrate Google's mapping tools to address important problems through creative and scalable geospatial applications. We will be developing a dynamic Geo Portal with climate change data to provide a “one stop shop” Internet database for Asian elephant conservation and to identify individual elephants through an automated identification program. Read More...
- UNDP Equator Initiative 2008 Prize Winner
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From our engagement with SLWCS 2008 has been an exceptional year for your organization. SLWCS qualified this year as a winner of the Equator Prize 2008 a prize awarded biennially to recognize outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The prize was awarded at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain. At a high-level Award Ceremony of dignitaries, Ravi Corea, President of SLWCS, joined community representatives from two other regions to deliver a Community Declaration which made a lasting impression on those in attendance, and indeed made an impact that resonated through the entire conference regarding the importance of local and indigenous community contributions to biodiversity conservation, poverty reduction, and sustainable development objectives.
We remain impressed by the work of SLWCS and see the organization as a centre of excellence in Sri Lanka as well as throughout the Region of Asia and the Pacific. It is our sincere hope that we can work together with SLWCS in the future to share best practices and to support other organizations to replicate the successes SLWCS has had in conserving biodiversity and combating poverty through the important work of resolving elephant-human conflict.
To Ravi, the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS), the communities your organization serve, congratulations on a successful year and all the best for continued success in your projects and pursuits.
