Reliable information has been collected from few shrimp farms and adjacent natural ecosystems on the presence of Black mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) (Bivalvia; Mytilidae) in Muthupanthiya coastal belt in Northwestern province.
Horana Plantations and WNPS PLANT have just announced the launch of an exciting new conservation initiative in the hill country which hopes to build a nine-kilometer-long forest corridor along the Maskeliya Oya, creating 55 hectares of new forest in the process.