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Stop illegal road construction in buffer zone and inside Sinharaja WHS,(Ceylon) ,SL
Ravindra K.
started this petition to
UNESCO World Heritage ,Paris.
Dear Sir / Madam
I am writing you behalf of Center
Environment and Nature studies (CENS) in Sri Lanka, regarding an illegal road construction in Sinharaja World Heritage Site.
This Road construction work goes
on buffer zone and inside the Sinharaja world heritage site in Lankagama area
to Deniyaya construction started on 10.08.2020.
Sri Lankan army engineering force involves for this road construction on behalf
of Sri Lankan government. This is the same road that they started
to build trough Sinhraja world heritage in 2013. A complaint has been sent to
UNESCO world heritage office in 2013 and it has been stopped by UNESCO at that time .
A group of environmentalists
informed to Sri Lanka Forest department, President of Sri Lankan Government,
Ministry of Environment and the Center for Environment authority. But they never take an action to stop the
road construction.
Sinharaja
Forest Reserve is the unique remaining virgin tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka.
It is of international significance and has been designated as a Biosphere
Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The hilly virgin rainforest, part of
the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests Eco region, was saved from the worst commercial logging by its inaccessibility,
and was designated as a World Biosphere Reserve in 1978 and a World Heritage
Site in 1989.
According to IUCN’s Conservation
Outlook Assessment (2017) the conservation status of Sinharaja Forest Reserve
is of ‘significant concern’. The IUCN report notes that ‘The value of Sinharaja
as a natural world heritage site continues to be recognized by the discovery of
several endemic species of plants and animals since the declaration of this forest
as a world heritage in 1988. Some of the recent discoveries include several
species of herpetofauna that are restricted to the eastern region of
Sinharaja”.
We request you to take action
against this illegal road construction and help us to protect this virgin
forest land in Sri Lanka.
Best regards
Raveendra Kariyawasam behalf of CENS
I am writing you behalf of Center
Environment and Nature studies (CENS) in Sri Lanka, regarding an illegal road construction in Sinharaja World Heritage Site.
This Road construction work goes
on buffer zone and inside the Sinharaja world heritage site in Lankagama area
to Deniyaya construction started on 10.08.2020.
Sri Lankan army engineering force involves for this road construction on behalf
of Sri Lankan government. This is the same road that they started
to build trough Sinhraja world heritage in 2013. A complaint has been sent to
UNESCO world heritage office in 2013 and it has been stopped by UNESCO at that time .
A group of environmentalists
informed to Sri Lanka Forest department, President of Sri Lankan Government,
Ministry of Environment and the Center for Environment authority. But they never take an action to stop the
road construction.
Sinharaja
Forest Reserve is the unique remaining virgin tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka.
It is of international significance and has been designated as a Biosphere
Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The hilly virgin rainforest, part of
the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests Eco region, was saved from the worst commercial logging by its inaccessibility,
and was designated as a World Biosphere Reserve in 1978 and a World Heritage
Site in 1989.
According to IUCN’s Conservation
Outlook Assessment (2017) the conservation status of Sinharaja Forest Reserve
is of ‘significant concern’. The IUCN report notes that ‘The value of Sinharaja
as a natural world heritage site continues to be recognized by the discovery of
several endemic species of plants and animals since the declaration of this forest
as a world heritage in 1988. Some of the recent discoveries include several
species of herpetofauna that are restricted to the eastern region of
Sinharaja”.
We request you to take action
against this illegal road construction and help us to protect this virgin
forest land in Sri Lanka.
Best regards
Raveendra Kariyawasam behalf of CENS
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