A new orchid species has been discovered by researchers in the Walankanda Forest Reserve and the discovery published recently in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Dilmah Tea announced on Friday.The announcement said that the orchid was found in Dilmah’s Endana Nature Corridor, a landmark project aimed at linking two fragmented forest reserves running through an abandoned […]
COLOMBO Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe was on a butterfly chase in Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Mountains, in the Indian Ocean island’s central highlands. He’d tracked down a rare butterfly known as the small leopard, named after the markings on its wings, and was moving in for a closer look at the eggs it had laid in […]