Sri Lanka is an island, 65,610 km’s in area situated close to the Southeast corner of the peninsula of India. Despite its relatively small size, Sri Lanka possesses a high level of biodiversity. A noteworthy feature of Sri Lanka's biodiversity is the remarkable high proportion of endemic s    Read more...

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pecies among its flora and fauna: 23% of the flowering plants and 16% of the mammals in the island are endemic. Sri Lanka has a wide range of topographic and climatic variation and this contributes to the special features of its biodiversity.

Sri Lanka has been identified by the environment activist group Conservation International as one of 25 biodiversity hot spots in the world.

These hot spots could have maximum benefit by preservation efforts. Together with Western India, Sri Lanka, the island in the Indian Ocean, accounts for 2,180 plant species that are unique to each hot spot.

Sri Lanka's tropical rain forest ecosystem is considered as an area which is disturbed by human activity, but still exceptionally rich in animal and plant species found nowhere else.

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