Beauty Of Nature

Introduction

Welcome to Sri Lanka.It is very peaceful country. It is known as the pearl in the Indian ocean. This site will guide you to find more information about the beauty of Sri Lanka.

Our Vision

Our vision is to help you from giving some guidelines with this website Come visit us!

Forest In Sri Lanka

Forests cover in Sri Lanka started declining with the introduction of commercial crops. Clearing of forests for agricultural and residential purposes. further contributed in reducing the natural forest cover.

In year 1900, the total land area covered by forests was 70% and today it constitute a lower figure of 23.9%

According to the census in 1950 the forests cover was established as 44%, in 1983 27% and in 1992 it was 23.9%. The total forests cover is around 30.8% of the total land area of Sri Lanka including other forests. It seems that about 40,000 ha of forest area cleared every year.

Classification of forest is done by different groups in different ways and the classification done by the Department of forest Conservation using elevation and rainfall is as follow

Sri Lanka, the planned marine link between west Asia and south east, is famous for it’s native coconut, tea, coffee, cinnamon and rubber production and a good sum of money comes from the export of these things. The natural beauty of Sri Lanka consists of tropical rain forests, landscape and beaches. The country is famous world wide for its tourist destinations and it is also popular for its cultural heritages. The rain forest in Sri Lanka is the prime cause behind the popularity of Sri Lankan tourism.

The low land rain forest in Sri Lanka is below 1,000 m in altitude in the southwestern part of the country. Warm and wet climate exists side by side here. This specialty of weather together helps to form numerous species of plants and animals to be found in the rain forest in Sri Lanka only.

But rain forest in Sri Lanka also has suffered a lot during the time of civil war that led to a massive forest cleaning. The political condition of 90s and 80 forced the soldiers to clear the mangrove and lowland rain forest in Sri Lanka as it helps the rebels to take shelter in those areas. The shocking information of deforestation has forced Sri Lankan government to announce the rain forests as a protected area.

A rainforest is made up with an extreme complex structure of high trees. Rainforest in Sri Lanka is blessed with wide variety of wild flowers, vast existence of wild birds, reptiles, insects, and mammals which are all mutually dependent on each other. An exploration to Sri Lanka rain forest could be a life time achievement in nature adventure.