Sri Lanka is seeking greater international protection for several lizard species found nowhere else on Earth. The country hosts the next meeting of CITES next month, where it will propose several ...

Conservationists say they suspect Sri Lanka came under pressure from the European Union to water down its proposals for increased protection for several rare and endemic lizards from the international ...

Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity. It is already driving local extinctions — particularly among lizards trapped in geographically isolated habitats, ...

A significant number of Sri Lanka’s most threatened agamid lizard species are found in the Central Highlands, the Knuckles Range, and the Rakwana Range, according to recent research by a young Sri ...