flora of Sinharaja

   There are many floras we can find in Sinharaja forest. There are about 240000 plants species found per 1ha. There are 192 endemic timber species out of 340. 13 endemic flora species are recorded in Sinharaja forest.

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Fauna and Flora

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.

Sinharaja is a paradise of endemic and other species of fauna. That is a thing that you wondered is over 50% of endemic species of fauna are living in Sinharaja Tropical rain forest. There are about 282 birds are recorded in Sinharaja out of 384 in Sri Lanka. It is 73%. Most of species who are endemic to Sri Lanka can be seen on Sinharaja. Butterflies, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are major fauna types 

Contacting Persons

If you like to way to Sinharaja forest at Kalawana, Kudawa enterence. You can get more details from following person.

Sathiska : 0777989680

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