Monday, July 21, 2014

Horton Plains - Magnificent Lanka.


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Excellent video!

Ø  A celebration of Sri Lanka's magnificent highlands.

Ø  Nurturing environmental awareness to preserve Sri Lanka's unique natural heritage.

Just imagine that in the 1980s SL Govt. bureaucrats from the Dept. of Agriculture, the Livestock Development Board and the Dept. of Wild Life were engaged in a fierce debate about utilization of Horton Plains for growing potatoes, raising dairy cows or making the place a national park.

In the 1970s, the Socialist Govt. contemplated opening a plywood factory by Sinharaja forest to harvest the timber.

Did these people ever understand what a “National Heritage” was?


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