Sri Lanka’s Central Hills at risk: One-fifth of land prone to landslides

Tissa Fernando Saturday, 28 October 2023 07:01 AM

If you defy the nature , the nature will get back to you. I have seen videos of you tubers about a 7 star hotel constructed on a hill top inside the Sinharaja reservation. This kind of environmental damage will result in more damages somewhere else.

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D P P Prasad Saturday, 28 October 2023 10:16 AM

First of all unauthorised constructions which are located in the stream reservations and the steep areas should be removed and such areas should be planted with fast growing trees and grass species in order to prevent the top layer of the soil from the continuous erosion. Subsequently other techniques should be implemented to reduce the surface infiltration

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Onlooker Saturday, 28 October 2023 10:17 AM

I mentioned in 1985 (unrecorded) that the construction of the reservoirs will eventually lead to this as the seepage in thirty years and will destabilise the existing equilibrium of the top surface of land below these dams. How come areas downstream of the reservoirs only experience this while in other parts of the country, still it is stable.

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Yoga Saturday, 28 October 2023 10:43 AM

Who approves the cultivation in highly environmentally sentizied areas and selling of forest land and other areas which can digger land slides. If you go Devon waterfall can clearly see some started cultivating on a very slopy land and the extent encroachment gradually increasing

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johan Saturday, 28 October 2023 10:52 AM

When I was in Tea Plantations before 40 years the tea planters use to identify those areas where land slides tend to occur and use to plant grasses that prevent landslides.Unfortunately I do not have the botanical names of those grasses and plants.Better the Plantations Minister must take initiative in a scientific manner because we do not find planters these days with botanical knowledge in tea estates because tea estates have gone to dogs after companies took over.

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Risky projects Sunday, 29 October 2023 04:26 PM

it is interesting that planting special variety of grass is mentioned to control landslide. But did anyone remember the Uma Oya Project that caused damage to the hill country. It was just a news item, and was forgotten by everyone. Thee projects cost millions if not billions.

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