Maintaining its commitment to the Global Sustainability Strategy, fastened to the triple bottom-line creating value for people, planet alongside profitability, corporate entities are expected to place great emphasis on the Preservation of biodiversity.
SriLankan Airlines on Thursday 2nd June 2016 joined a landmark worldwide drive to crack down on the illegal global trade in wildlife trafficking that has brought many of the world’s rare species close to extinction.
SriLankan Airlines as a conservation minded airline constantly in the lookout for opportunity to partake on conservation efforts. In 2015, SriLankan was invited by the INSEE Cement (former Holcim Lanka Pvt LTD) to be part of a national level endeavor.
SriLankan Airlines has been listed in "Cecil Honor Roll" by world’s leading aviation magazine, Air Transport World (ATW) for banning carriage of wild game/hunter trophies on-board its flights from August 18, 2015 onwards.
Department of Wildlife Conservation Sri Lanka invited SriLankan Airlines to join with them on their expedition to capture Sri Lanka’s TOP SEVEN wild animals in photography. The expedition was consists with a team from Department of Wildlife, SriLankan Airlines and Philatelic Bureau of Sri Lanka and they covered the Kumana National Park with extensions to Yala strict reserve.
