Lanka's environmental concerns and the (US) Tropical Forests Conservation Act

THE National Academy of Sciences was given its mandate and empowered by an Act of Parliament, the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka (Incorporation) Act, No. 66 of 1988. One of the general objects of the Academy as set out in Section 3 (d) of the Act is "to report on the management and the rational utilization of the national resources of Sri Lanka so as to ensure optimal productivity consistent with continued use of the biosphere on a long-term basis taking into account the repercussions of using a particular resource on other resources and the environment as a whole, and to help in making use of the resources of the country in national development".

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In a land of 'politics without people'

FORMER Oxonian Susil Sirivardana analysing local and global politics delivered some interesting findings which in no unmistakable terms hit at the root cause of what has gone wrong where in a dysfunctional state. What emerged from this interview the Daily News had with him was the stark truth of global chaos.

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