Rainforest Protectors Trust is urgently in need of funds to purchase and permanently protect this 6 acres of privately held primary forest directly bordering the Sinharaja World Heritage Rainforest in Sri Lanka and adjoining our previously protected forest land. Rainforest Protectors Trust has protected 4 tracts of forest land in the area totalling 24 acres and this is a crucial piece in the jigsaw puzzle of unprotected forest land. Through the creation of the Protected Buffer Zone, we will be able to significantly reduce encroachment and illegal activities including poaching and deforestation within Sinharaja World Heritage Rainforest.

This beautiful 6 acre primary forest land directly borders the Northern boundary of Sinharaja World Heritage Rainforest and also directly borders conservation land #4 (10 acres) protected by Rainforest Protectors Trust in 2022, thus creating a contiguous protected buffer zone. It consists of giant endangered native trees such as Hora (Dipterocarpus zeylanicus), with a water stream teaming with endemic freshwater fish and crustaceans. The area is home to the endangered Sri Lanka Blue Magpie and Red Faced Malkoha, two beautiful birds found nowhere else. Mammals living in the area include the endangered Sri Lankan Leopard, porcupine, sambur deer and wild boar. The area is also visited by the last two remaining rainforest elephants of Sinharaja. Therefore, it has a high conservation value and by protecting this unique habitat we can take a step forward towards creating bio-diversity corridors between Sinharaja and nearby fragmented rainforests as well as protecting our catchment areas.

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We hope donors will join this initiative to extend the protected buffer zone aimed at preventing encroachment and stopping deforestation of Sinharaja rainforest.