All Lankan plants in National Red Data Book [August 18 2011]

All plants growing in Sri Lanka will be included in the National Red Data Book, which will have all details like the places where the plants grow, the threats and the plants in the verge of extinction.

The assessment will be done by the Biodiversity Secretariat and according to its Director Gamini Gamage the details about 1,000 species of fauna in the existing book would be increased to a total of 3,600 plants species - endemic and non-endemic flowering and non-flowering plants.