This case was filed on 23.12.2022 by the Centre For Environmental Justice (CEJ) against heavy sand mining in the Grama Niladhari Divisions of Suduwella, Mugunuwatawana, Mallawagara, Pothuwila, Henepola, Uraliyagara, Sembukattiya, Erunwila and Galmaruwa within the Divisional Secretariat Division of Madampe in Puttalam District, Geological Survey and Mines Bureau and its Chairman, Central Environmental Authority and

Centre for Environmental Justice filed a fundamental right petition on 4th day of May 2022 at the Supreme Court against his Excellency the President, Gotabaya Rajapakse, Minister of Environment and others. Over the years, Sri Lanka has had one of the highest deforestation rates of primary forests and also of its old-growth forest cover to

The State Minister of Wildlife Protection, Adoption of safety measures including the construction of electrical fences and trenches and reforestation and forest resource development, and the Director General of Wildlife has moved to dig trenches in Protected Areas citing it as a strategy to mitigate the Human Elephant conflict. Plans have been made to dig