Special Community projects

Expanding to 60 acres, the Sri Lanka’s first ever Thalawathugoda Wetland Park is located within a highly urbanized area in the close proximity of the Parliament Complex in Sri Jawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka (within Greater Colombo). As the first educational field visit for the year, SriLankan Environment unit took the members of SriLankan School Green Club to this spectacular wetland on the 26th February, in order to raise the awareness of this important eco-system.

SriLankan Environment Unit once again completed a successful awareness session on ‘Waste management and best practices’ at the Andiambalama Maha Vidyalaya. This was conducted due to a request made by the SriLankan School Green Club members attached to the same school at the last World Environment Day event.

SriLankan School Green Club had their first field visit to Nithya Paper and Boards Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Horana on 20th December 2016 as part of their environmental educational process. The objective of this visit is to exposes the students of Andiambalama Maha Vidyalaya to gain much needed hands-on experience in paper recycling related processes in order for them to develop their own paper recycling programme at school.

SriLankan Environment Unit together with SriLankan Cares held the first educational programme for its School Green Club members, who are the students of Andiambalama Maha Vidyalaya on the 19th October at the SriLankan Aviation College.

Next generation has a key role to play in preserving the fading charm of Earth’s Greenery, hence the right culture should be created during school days to ensure that they grow up to be individuals who work towards preserving the core essence of Mother Nature.

SriLankan Airlines’ signature eco-tourism project, project BLUEprint, commenced its second phase with a one day awareness programme conducted for the boat operators who are into whales watching industry around Kalpitiya area.

SriLankan Airlines has launched the Project BLUEprint in partnership with Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), UK. The Airline and wildlife charity is working together to jointly develop a community-based responsible whale and dolphin watching industry off the coast of Sri Lanka and encourage responsible behavior amongst local boat tour operators.