SRILANKAN ANIMALS

Though sri lanka is very small in land area, the great diverse fauna and flora, with many species  endemic to 

the island. Historically as well as in  the modern era, successive rulers and government of sri lanka have 

strived to provide sanctuary and protection to our beautiful wide life. 

Today the demands and aspiration of an expanding human population makes it difficult for sponsored 

accelerated Mahaweli program irrigation project opened a large amount of new land for paddy cultivation in 

dry zone of the amount of land devoted to tea, coconut and rubber remained stable in the forty years after 

independence.