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Conservation of Sinharaja World Heritage Forest

The Sinharaja forest reserve is composed of a core zone and a Buffer zone. The core zone is composed of Tropical rain forest means wet tropical evergreen forest. But the buffer zone shows a diversity of forest types since it extends along a large sector of land.

The Sinharaja rain forest is gradients over to the south-western slope of central hills. Thus, the intermediate zone between the two zones composed of Wet, Lowland Montanez forests. Conservation current status of Sinharaja is in satisfied level.

Conservation status of Sinharaja is some what better than other forests of Sri Lanka. Sinharaja allocated to two zones like follows.

            1.    Buffer Zone

            2.    Core protected Zone

Buffer zone is at the border of Sinharaja forest and about 3.2km wide. Because of buffer zone contiguous human associated with only buffer zone and then core protected zone is secured.

Conservation Management

Conservation Management Sinharaja is administered by the Forest Department under the Ministry of Lands and Land Development. Recognizing the need for maximum possible protection, it has recently been declared as a national heritage wilderness area under the National Heritage Wilderness Areas Act. The site is also partially protected under the provisions of the Forest Ordinance. A conservation plan has been officially approved, implementation of which is being carried out under a cooperative agreement between IUCN and the Sri Lankan government, with additional funding from the Norwegian government. In order to ensure the strict protection of the reserve for scientific and aesthetic reasons, a scheme of zoning and management is proposed for areas outside the reserve. The creation and propagation of essential forest products, for sustained utilization, in areas outside the reserve is intended to meet local needs and thereby eliminate former dependence on resources within the reserve. Alternative strategies are either to establish a 3.2km-wide buffer zone round the reserve or to enlarge the area protected to about 47,380ha, with the reserve forming a strictly protected core area and surrounding areas set aside as buffers for various uses.

Because of those types of conservation and management schemes Sinharaja is much secure from external human beings. Not only the conservation schemes started in such forests but also monitoring its situation, identifying the difficulties and continue its processes is required.