Environment - the survival of mankind

Birth of an independent forum :

The inaugural session of the Public Forum :

The inaugural session of the Public Forum, a joint initiative by SPARC and the German Cultural Centre or Goethe Institute of Colombo was recently held at the German Cultural Centre.

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A man of vision and mission

A pioneer Campaigner for the Prevention of Burns :

An ingenuous idea conceived in the mind of a consultant surgeon, has over the years grown up to a formidable campaign to prevent thousands of would-be burn patients and even deaths that may have been caused due to toppling of the unsafe bottle lamps that light thousands of households in Sri Lanka.

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Of electricity wires and the sad plight of comic book idols

Other than the killing of flying foxes for food and seasonal destruction of them on cash crops trees, the electrical power transmission also takes a fair number of mortalities annually in the urban areas. One example could be the city of Kandy with one of the largest roosting camps in the Peradeniya gardens.

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