Tag: Sri Lanka

Flora. – According to Petsinclude, Ceylon has an exuberant and very rich vegetation with many endemic species. Before the exploitation by man of the forest for timber and before the settlement in large sectors of its crops (coffee, tea, china, rice, etc.), a dense and impenetrable jungle must have covered, as it still partly covers,…

Yearbook 2008 Sri Lanka. In January, the government announced that it was suspending the ceasefire from 2002, which has in practice failed long ago. Hard fighting broke out immediately in the northern part of the country between the army and the Tamil guerrilla LTTE. The guerrillas, in their home districts, increasingly responded with a series…