An evaluation of the biodiversity conservation in the country and insights to conservation efforts in the future - ‘Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Conservation at Crossroads,’ guest speaker Dr. Eric Wikramanayake will address the issues of conservation vs development in the monthly lecture series of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society (WNPS) at the BMICH Jasmine Hall, on September 20 at 6 p.m. The current Chairperson of the Environment Foundation Ltd. (EFL), Wikramanayake is a conservation biologist with over 25 years of experience throughout Asia. He was a conservation scientist with the World Wildlife Fund; a research fellow with the Smithsonian Institute; senior strategic advisor with the biodiversity and wildlife programme at RESOLVE; and consultant conservation advisor to ADB’s Greater Mekong Sub-region Biodiversity Conservation Corridors (GMS-BCC) project.
Wikramanayake would look at how conservation strategies could adopt to change and face current, emerging and projected threats. How Sri Lanka could reconcile biodiversity conservation with development, set goals and develop a conservation strategy for the 22nd century.