Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja, the largest great lowland Gondwanan Rainforest in Southern Asia is the richest store of biodiversity in Sri Lanka making it a unique site for scientists, naturalists and Eco tourists. Sinharaja covers a narrow silver of land 21 km long and 3.7 km wide, covering an area of roughly 11,187 hectares. This rainforest is home to the highest concentration of endemic species of plants and animals, several of which are rare or endangered. It contains 36 percent of all vertebrates found in Sri Lanka and 43 percent of all endemic species found on the island.
The Sinharaja Forest Reserve represents Sri Lanka’s only rainforest and is a living repository of a pristine ecosystem. The forest’s high biodiversity includes flora endemic to the country as well as some endemic to the forest itself
. he dominant natural vegetation of the area is characteristic of Lower Montane Wet Evergreen Forests while its species composition is typical to what is found in a mid-elevation primary rainforest. The presence of species habitats on different layers of the canopy clearly indicates a healthy forest ecosystem at work.
Towering Shorea trapezifolia and Shorea gardenineri form the pillars of the forest formation with Myristica dactyloides, Cullinia rosayroana, Bhesa montata, Alixnandra zeylanica filling in at different levels of the canopy.
Each layer of the forest canopy has a unique set of environmental conditions and organisms. The emergent layer comprises of tall trees such as Shorea congestiflora, Sorea stipularis, Shorea affinis soaring as high as 45m above the forest floor inhabited by eagles, monkeys, butterflies and insect-eating bats.
Underneath, rising up to about 35m, Shorea distichta and Shorea megistophylla (some of the species in the primary canopy layer) form the primary canopy layer. Many species of flower simultaneously giving habitat to Monkeys, Flying Squirrels, Bats, Tree Frogs, Ants, Beetles and birds such as Flycatchers.
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Sinharaja Rainforest
Sinharaja, the largest great lowland Gondwanan Rainforest in Southern Asia is the richest store of biodiversity in Sri Lanka making it a unique site for scientists, naturalists and Eco tourists. Sinharaja covers a narrow silver of land 21 km long and 3.7 km wide, covering an area of roughly 11,187 hectares. This rainforest is home to the highest concentration of endemic species of plants and animals, several of which are rare or endangered. It contains 36 percent of all vertebrates found in Sri Lanka and 43 percent of all endemic species found on the island.
The Sinharaja Forest Reserve represents Sri Lanka’s only rainforest and is a living repository of a pristine ecosystem. The forest’s high biodiversity includes flora endemic to the country as well as some endemic to the forest itself
. he dominant natural vegetation of the area is characteristic of Lower Montane Wet Evergreen Forests while its species composition is typical to what is found in a mid-elevation primary rainforest. The presence of species habitats on different layers of the canopy clearly indicates a healthy forest ecosystem at work.
Towering Shorea trapezifolia and Shorea gardenineri form the pillars of the forest formation with Myristica dactyloides, Cullinia rosayroana, Bhesa montata, Alixnandra zeylanica filling in at different levels of the canopy.
Each layer of the forest canopy has a unique set of environmental conditions and organisms. The emergent layer comprises of tall trees such as Shorea congestiflora, Sorea stipularis, Shorea affinis soaring as high as 45m above the forest floor inhabited by eagles, monkeys, butterflies and insect-eating bats.
Underneath, rising up to about 35m, Shorea distichta and Shorea megistophylla (some of the species in the primary canopy layer) form the primary canopy layer. Many species of flower simultaneously giving habitat to Monkeys, Flying Squirrels, Bats, Tree Frogs, Ants, Beetles and birds such as Flycatchers.
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Sinharaja eco mahee villa
SinharajaEco Mahee Villa - Sinharaja
Eco Villa is a tourist attracted guest house. situated in Deniyaya villege lankagama , near Sinharaja rainforest.
It is now becoming a very popular guest house in Deniyaya region by providing accommodations, warm hospitality and delicious food to the tourists .
We provide a calm and quite environment to the guests with numerous facilities and warm hospitality to spend their tour.
