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Lesser-Known Food of Sri Lanka, Cooking Competition

The ‘Lesser-Known Foods of Sri Lanka’ campaign – an advocacy initiative launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sri Lanka together with the Mi...

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Commemoration of the World Seagrass Day on 1st March 2024 - Jetwing Blue Negombo

Commemoration of the World Seagrass Day on 1st March 2024 - Jetwing Blue Negombo Sri Lanka, nestled in the Indo-Pacific seagrass bioregion, boasts half of the world's seagrass, yet much of it remains...

National Target 2 - Incorporate, biodiversity considerations into national policies, plans, and...

Aim of this target is to ensure planning is carried out in a participatory manner integrating biodiversity considerations at all levels of the government. This would ensure effective land use planning to minimize impacts on biodiversity and avoid...

National Target 3 - Conserve 30% of the island’s land and waters, and 10% of the coastal and marine...

Sri Lanka has set aside nearly 30% of its terrestrial, and inland waters as protected areas. However, the protected area network does not fully represent the critical biodiversity elements of Sri Lanka as the southwestern part of Sri Lanka, which...

National Target 4 - Halt species extinction, protect genetic diversity, and manage human-wildlife...

Ensure urgent management actions are taken to halt climate change-related and human-induced extinction of species as well as recover and conserve vulnerable species inhabiting terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine systems, including indigenous...

Panorama Solutions

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Life - Ecological Restoration through Partnerships

Biodiversity Sri Lanka in partnership with the Sri Lanka Forest Department, IUCN Sri Lanka and selected private sector partners, undertook a pilot project to establish a biodiversity baseline in a 10h...

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Biodiversity Learning Platform

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

 
 
 

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