Highest density of wild leopards in the world - Sri Lanka's Yala National Park

There are 26 national parks and two marine parks in Sri Lanka. Yala National Park is known for having the world's highest population of wild leopards as well as the world's largest leopards.

According to reports, there is one leopard every square kilometer in one region of the Park, a staggeringly high amount when compared to anywhere else on the planet. According to unconfirmed sources, Sri Lanka has between 500 and 650 leopards in the wild.

Sri Lankan Leopards can also be found in the much bigger Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka's largest. Although not as densely inhabited with leopards as Yala, the whole acreage of this National Park suggests that there may be a significant number of these large cats there. Leopard sightings are similarly uncommon in Sri Lanka's other national parks, as leopards prefer to avoid human settlements.

During a visit to Yala, expect to observe grouchy bachelor male elephants during the dry season and enormous herds during the rainy season. Mammals include wild boar, buffalo, and a variety of deer can also be found in the park. Yala National Park is home to a diverse range of birds, including flamingos and hornbills, as is the case across Sri Lanka. The park is also home to the endangered Black-necked Stork, which can only be seen in a few locations throughout the world.

There are also 215 kinds of birds, mugger crocodiles, and other reptiles in Sri Lanka, and five species of sea turtles nest along the park's shoreline. Udawalawe National Park, adjacent to Yala, is home to elephant herds and uncommon birds like as the changeable hawk-eagle and the serpent eagle. - It's called Sri Lanka for a reason.

Comments

Oldest Radio Station in Asia (world’s second oldest)-Radio Ceylon - Srilanka

Sri Lanka possesses Asia's (and the world's) oldest radio station. Radio Ceylon used to be the name of the station. It grew into one of the world's most prestigious broadcasting institutions. The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is now the name of the company. When the Telegraph Department began broadcasting in Ceylon on an experimental basis in 1923, just three years after broadcasting in Europe, Sri Lanka made Asian broadcasting history. A modest transmitter created by Telegraph Department engineers using the radio equipment of a captured German submarine was used to broadcast gramophone music from a tiny chamber in the Central Telegraph Office. This radio trial was a big success, and a regular broadcasting service was established only three years later, on December 16, 1925. Edward Harper, who arrived in Ceylon in 1921 as Chief Engineer of the Telegraph Office, was the first person in the country to actively push radio. With broadcasting services launched just thre...

World's first female prime minister - Honorable Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Following the killing of her husband, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected as the world's first female Prime Minister on July 21, 1960. She promoted principles of nonalignment abroad and democratic socialism at home. Following her husband's killing, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world's first female Prime Minister on July 21, 1960. She promoted nonalignment policies both overseas and at home, as well as democratic socialism. Sirimavo (sometimes Sirima) Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike was born on April 17, 1916, to an aristocratic Kandyan family and educated in a Roman Catholic convent in Colombo. Bandaranaike married Solomon West Ridge-way Dias (SWRD) Bandaranaike in 1940, when he was a minister in the government of Ceylon, then a British crown territory. Bandaranaike's life was politically unremarkable. She had the preoccupations of a homemaker married to an important national leader who became Ceylon's prime minister in 1956, eight years after independence. However, SW...

The oldest human planted tree in the world - JAYA SRI MAHA BODHI

The oldest tree known to have been planted by humans rather than natural sowing is a 2,300-year-old sacred fig or bo-tree (Ficus religiosa) in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, known as Sri Maha Bodhiya. It was planted there around 288 BC. The mother tree from which this specimen was reproduced was none other than the famed Bodhi tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, sat when he attained enlightenment. Naturally, because of its spiritual importance, the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi holds a special place in the hearts of the world's Buddhists, particularly those in Sri Lanka. Every year, Buddhists from all over the world come to visit and pay their respects to one of the most precious ancient relics of the Buddhist faith. According to history, Sangamitte Theri, daughter of Emperor Asoka, transported the tree all the way from India to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century BC. Sangmitta established her own order of Buddhist nuns in her native Sri Lanka. The tree was then officially planted by K...

Srilanka for a reason

Search This Blog